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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.
4,802 approved · 557 refused · 307 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Lotmead Site New Eastern Villages Wanborough Swindon
Received 14 Sept 2026Lotmead Site Eastern Villages Swindon
Received 14 Sept 202650 Rosebery Street Swindon SN1 2ER
Received 10 Sept 2026Duke Of Edinburgh P H Cricklade Road Swindon SN2 1AE
Received 10 Sept 202643 Wessex Way Highworth Swindon SN6 7NT
Received 15 Sept 202618 Greenwich Close Abbey Meads Swindon SN25 4TG
Received 14 Sept 202654 Birchwood Road Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 4JR
Received 11 Sept 2026Phase 3 Badbury Park Land At Commonhead Swindon
Received 14 Sept 2026Sn1 Station Road Swindon
Received 14 Sept 2026Land North Of Blackworth Blackworth Industrial Estate Highworth Swindon SN6 7NA
Received 15 Sept 20263 Roberts Close Wroughton Swindon SN4 0RS
Received 15 Sept 2026Walnut Court Kembrey Business Park Upper Stratton Swindon SN2 8BN
Received 16 Sept 2026Building 1 Walnut Court Kembrey Business Park Upper Stratton Swindon SN2 8BN
Received 16 Sept 2026Focal Point 27 - 35 Fleet Street Swindon SN1 1RQ
Received 17 Sept 20264 Joseph Street Swindon SN1 5LW
Received 17 Sept 202661 The Mall Old Town Swindon SN1 4JA
Received 15 Sept 202643 Colchester Close Toothill Swindon SN5 8AG
Received 10 Sept 2026Land At Nightingale Lane South Marston Swindon
Received 17 Sept 20269 Firth Close Haydon Wick Swindon SN25 3NX
Received 14 Sept 2026Land At 27 Ermin Street Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 4RH
Received 16 Sept 202670 Windsor Road Lawn Swindon SN3 1JX
Received 18 Sept 202644 Coronation Road Wroughton Swindon SN4 9AS
Received 18 Sept 2026Land North Of A420 Eastern Villages Swindon
Received 17 Sept 202613 The Quarries Old Town Swindon SN1 4EX
Received 21 Sept 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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