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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.
4,699 approved · 552 refused · 299 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Burderop Farm Dairy Dairy Road Chiseldon Swindon SN4 0QE
Received 18 May 2026Redlands (Phase 2) Eastern Villages Swindon SN3 0AS
Received 18 May 2026Parcels R6 And R7 Land North Of A420 Swindon
Received 18 May 20264 Victoria Road Old Town Swindon SN1 3AJ
Received 18 May 2026Land At Unit C Frankland Road Blagrove Swindon SN5 8YG
Received 18 May 2026Land To The Rear Of 41-51 Westlecot Road Old Town Swindon SN1 4EZ
Received 18 May 202615 Taylor Crescent Kingsdown Swindon SN3 4UX
Received 19 May 2026Trinity Hall Victoria Road Old Town Swindon SN1 3AL
Received 18 May 2026Lotmead Site Eastern Villages Swindon
Received 19 May 2026Lotmead Site New Eastern Villages Wanborough Swindon
Received 19 May 2026Parcels R1 And R2 South Marston Swindon
Received 14 May 2026Redlands Eastern Villages Swindon
Received 19 May 202635 Devon Road Rodbourne Cheney Swindon SN2 1PQ
Received 19 May 2026Broome Manor Golf Complex 6 The Fairway Broome Manor Swindon SN3 1RG
Received 19 May 202635 Windermere Liden Swindon SN3 6JZ
Received 19 May 202697 The Mall Old Town Swindon SN1 4JE
Received 19 May 2026112 Clifton Street Kingshill Swindon SN1 3QA
Received 20 May 2026Land North Of A420 South Marston Swindon
Received 19 May 2026Land North Of A420 Eastern Villages Swindon
Received 20 May 2026210 Drove Road Swindon SN1 3AG
Received 20 May 202641 Great Western Outlet Village 1 - 144 Kemble Drive Rodbourne Swindon SN2 2DY
Received 21 May 2026St Pauls Court Cricklade Road Swindon
Received 19 May 2026Toothill SSEN Substation Wootton-Bassett Road Toothill Swindon SN5 8WF
Received 14 May 2026Unit 4 Keypoint Thornhill Road South Marston Swindon SN3 4RY
Received 20 May 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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