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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4,603 approved · 541 refused · 290 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
23 Deva Close Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 4BL
Received 28 Aug 202513 Orrin Close Sparcells Swindon SN5 5FJ
Received 28 Aug 202578 Cricklade Road Swindon SN2 8AF
Received 1 Sept 202578 Cricklade Road Swindon SN2 8AF
Received 1 Sept 202532 Hamble Road Haydon Wick Swindon SN25 3PF
Received 29 Aug 202543 Evergreens Close Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 4HN
Received 29 Aug 2025Blagrove Service Station Great Western Way Swindon SN5 8UY
Received 1 Sept 2025Strawberry Thief Mackay Crescent Tadpole Garden Village Swindon SN25 2RA
Received 29 Aug 2025123 Cricklade Road Swindon SN2 1AD
Received 1 Sept 2025Little Thatch High Street Wanborough Swindon SN4 0AE
Received 1 Sept 202576 Emerald Crescent Swindon Swindon SN25 2SN
Received 1 Sept 2025Sn1 Station Road Swindon
Received 1 Sept 2025Hanger C2 Orbital Road Wroughton Swindon SN4 0FS
Received 2 Sept 2025Land At Unit C Frankland Road Blagrove Swindon SN5 8YG
Received 2 Sept 2025Hoopers Field Sports And Community Facility Rotten Row Wanborough Swindon SN4 0AN
Received 2 Sept 202532 Hughes Street Rodbourne Swindon SN2 2HG
Received 1 Sept 2025The Old Bakery Oxon Place Bishopstone Swindon SN6 8PS
Received 2 Sept 202524 Marigold Close Woodhall Park Swindon SN2 2SY
Received 2 Sept 2025Bartrop Yard Westrop Highworth Swindon SN6 7HJ
Received 2 Sept 2025Land To East Of Swindon Road And South Of Redlands Close Highworth Swindon
Received 2 Sept 2025Alexandra Park Whittingham Drive Wroughton Swindon
Received 2 Sept 2025West Bungalow Cobden Road Ferndale Swindon SN2 1DP
Received 2 Sept 202519 Park Lane Chiseldon Swindon SN4 0FY
Received 2 Sept 2025139 Okus Road Swindon SN1 4JT
Received 3 Sept 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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