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.
4,661 approved · 545 refused · 296 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Bath Road Old Town Swindon SN1 4AS
Received 13 Feb 202623 Bath Road Old Town Swindon SN1 4AS
Received 13 Feb 2026Land At Langton Park Wroughton Swindon
Received 13 Feb 202627 Pritchard Close Kingsdown Swindon SN2 7TZ
Received 16 Feb 202611 Bedford Street Wroughton Swindon SN4 9DF
Received 16 Feb 202642 Home Farm Highworth Swindon SN6 7EG
Received 16 Feb 202620 Anglesey Close Westlea Swindon SN5 7DX
Received 17 Feb 2026Lotmead Site Eastern Villages Swindon Swindon
Received 16 Feb 2026Parcel 12 Land North Of A420 Eastern Villages Swindon
Received 16 Feb 202617 Nursery Close Wroughton Swindon SN4 9DR
Received 17 Feb 2026Copperfield Mill Lane Stanton Fitzwarren Swindon SN6 7SA
Received 16 Feb 202672 High Street Blunsdon Swindon SN26 7AE
Received 17 Feb 20267 Barrowby Mews Swindon SN3 4HL
Received 17 Feb 202611 Jopp Close Haydon End Swindon SN25 1BP
Received 17 Feb 202618 Pleydell Road Old Town Swindon SN1 4DH
Received 17 Feb 2026Land To The West Of Woodbine Cottage Kingsdown Lane Blunsdon Swindon SN25 5DL
Received 17 Feb 20268 Cleeve Lawns Lawn Swindon SN3 1LE
Received 17 Feb 2026210 Queens Drive Swindon SN3 1AL
Received 19 Feb 202612 Kendal Toothill Swindon SN5 8HW
Received 19 Feb 2026118 Wheeler Avenue Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN2 7HN
Received 18 Feb 2026Prebendal Farmhouse Icknield Way Bishopstone Swindon SN6 8PT
Received 19 Feb 20267 Shaw Ridge Leisure Park Shaw Swindon SN5 7DN
Received 19 Feb 20267 Shaw Ridge Leisure Park Shaw Swindon SN5 7DN
Received 19 Feb 20267 Shaw Ridge Leisure Park Shaw Swindon SN5 7DN
Received 19 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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