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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Swindon Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
4,603 approved · 541 refused · 290 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 Sept 1981 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Stubbs Hill Farm Broad Bush Blunsdon Swindon SN26 7ES
Received 22 Aug 202563 Broome Manor Lane Broome Manor Swindon SN3 1NB
Received 22 Aug 2025Fleming Way Units Fleming Way Swindon SN1 2NN
Received 22 Aug 2025Network Rail Compound Adjacent To Station Road Swindon SN1 2BB
Received 26 Aug 20256 Ellingdon Road Wroughton Swindon SN4 9HY
Received 26 Aug 202539 Woodchester Westlea Swindon SN5 7BQ
Received 26 Aug 202540 Longthorpe Close Toothill Swindon SN5 8AD
Received 26 Aug 2025Foxbridge Village South New Eastern Villages Wanborough Road Wanborough Swindon
Received 22 Aug 2025Land At The Ferns Front Lane Blunsdon Swindon SN26 7BJ
Received 22 Aug 202538 Trajan Road Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 4BS
Received 26 Aug 202512 Cleeve Lawns Lawn Swindon SN3 1LE
Received 27 Aug 2025Parcel R12 Land North Of A420 Swindon
Received 28 Aug 2025Land Adjacent To Bluebells Kingsdown Lane Blunsdon Swindon
Received 28 Aug 202558 Mulberry Grove Rodbourne Cheney Swindon SN2 1HY
Received 27 Aug 2025Broome Manor Golf Complex 6 The Fairway Broome Manor Swindon SN3 1RG
Received 27 Aug 2025Land At Fleming Way Units Fleming Way Swindon SN1 2NN
Received 28 Aug 2025110 Whitworth Road Swindon SN25 3BH
Received 27 Aug 2025Health Hydro Milton Road Swindon SN1 5JD
Received 27 Aug 2025Lotmead Site New Eastern Villages Wanborough Swindon
Received 27 Aug 2025474 Ferndale Road Swindon SN2 1HW
Received 27 Aug 202534 Mallard Close Covingham Swindon SN3 5JQ
Received 27 Aug 20257 Arran Way Highworth Swindon SN6 7HW
Received 28 Aug 2025Duke Of Edinburgh P H Cricklade Road Swindon SN2 1AE
Received 29 Aug 2025Penlan 137 Sandringham Road Lawn Swindon SN3 1JF
Received 28 Aug 2025Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Swindon Borough Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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