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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.
4,706 approved · 552 refused · 299 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Cues Farm Stables Cues Farm Cues Lane Bishopstone Swindon SN6 8PL
Received 27 May 202620 Pearl Road Middleleaze Swindon SN5 5TE
Received 28 May 2026Redlands Farm Wanborough Road Swindon SN3 0AD
Received 29 May 202636 Regent Circus Swindon SN1 1UQ
Received 28 May 2026Cherry Tree Farm Hannington Lane Hannington Swindon SN6 7RX
Received 28 May 20267 Shaw Ridge Leisure Park Shaw Swindon SN5 7DN
Received 29 May 2026Land At Chilton Farm Chilton Farm Track Wroughton Swindon SN4 9LU
Received 28 May 2026Land At Burytown Lane Blunsdon Swindon
Received 28 May 2026Whitehouse Farm Dairy Wharf Road Wroughton Swindon SN4 9QJ
Received 29 May 2026Burderop Farm Dairy Dairy Road Chiseldon Swindon SN4 0QE
Received 28 May 202617 The Mall Old Town Swindon SN1 4JA
Received 29 May 2026The Manor Badbury Lane Badbury Swindon SN4 0EU
Received 29 May 2026Land At Orbital Shopping Park North Swindon District Centre Abbey Meads Swindon
Received 29 May 2026Spectrum House Mead Way Swindon
Received 29 May 202650 Godwin Road Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 4XN
Received 27 May 2026Liddington Manor The Street Liddington Swindon SN4 0HD
Received 1 Jun 2026Area L Crampton Road Swindon SN3 3JJ
Received 1 Jun 202611 Radcot Close Shaw Swindon SN5 5UY
Received 1 Jun 202619 Merlin Way Covingham Swindon SN3 5AN
Received 29 May 202625 John Herring Crescent Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 4JJ
Received 1 Jun 2026358 Ferndale Road Swindon SN2 1HL
Received 1 Jun 2026Lotmead Site Eastern Villages Swindon
Received 2 Jun 202686 Tamworth Drive Ramleaze Swindon SN5 5SG
Received 2 Jun 202624 Marlborough Road Swindon SN3 1QY
Received 3 Jun 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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