Understanding planning · 13 min read
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.
4,657 approved · 544 refused · 294 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
14 Parklands Road Old Walcot Swindon SN3 1EG
Received 9 Feb 2026Land Adjacent To Burderop House Burderop Park Swindon Swindon SN4 0HN
Received 9 Feb 2026Marlborough House Okus Road Swindon SN1 4JS
Received 10 Feb 2026Thermo Fisher Scientific Kingfisher Drive Covingham Swindon SN3 5BZ
Received 9 Feb 2026County Ground Football Stadium County Road Swindon SN1 2ED
Received 10 Feb 2026County Ground Football Stadium County Road Swindon SN1 2ED
Received 10 Feb 2026Land At Latham Road Abbey Meads Swindon
Received 10 Feb 202623 Lampeter Road Oakhurst Swindon SN25 2BP
Received 9 Feb 2026109 Marlborough Road Swindon SN3 1PN
Received 11 Feb 202692 Oxford Road Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 4HD
Received 11 Feb 202673 Duchess Way Queensfield Swindon SN2 7TB
Received 11 Feb 202623 Prospect Place Old Town Swindon SN1 3LQ
Received 10 Feb 2026Car Showroom Grange Dorcan Way Swindon SN3 3RA
Received 11 Feb 2026Highworth Town Football Club The Elms Highworth Swindon
Received 10 Feb 2026123 Bath Road Old Town Swindon SN1 4AX
Received 10 Feb 202616 Churchward Avenue Rodbourne Cheney Swindon SN2 1NH
Received 10 Feb 2026Cross Street Garage Thames Avenue Haydon Wick Swindon SN25 3NT
Received 9 Feb 2026Great Western Outlet Village 1 - 144 Kemble Drive Rodbourne Swindon SN2 2DY
Received 11 Feb 2026Inlands Farm The Marsh Wanborough Swindon SN4 0AS
Received 11 Feb 2026Elm Rise Greens Lane Wroughton Swindon SN4 0RJ
Received 11 Feb 202634 Caraway Drive Woodhall Park Swindon SN2 2RF
Received 12 Feb 202615 Dykes Mews Chiseldon Swindon SN4 0NF
Received 11 Feb 20265 Park Lane Chiseldon Swindon SN4 0FY
Received 11 Feb 202612 Welby Close Swindon SN25 2RJ
Received 11 Feb 2026Records 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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