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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.
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Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Swindon Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
4,808 approved · 558 refused · 307 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bus Depot Eastcott Road Old Town Swindon SN1 3LS
Received 25 Sept 202655 Cumberland Road Old Walcot Swindon SN3 1AB
Received 23 Sept 2026Second Floor 34 - 35 Commercial Road Swindon SN1 5NS
Received 24 Sept 2026Office 1 Minton Place Station Road Swindon SN1 1DA
Received 25 Sept 202691 Rodbourne Road Swindon SN2 1DH
Received 24 Sept 2026Land To The West Of Former Electricity Sub Station Langton Park Wroughton Swindon
Received 25 Sept 202624 Church Walk South Rodbourne Cheney Swindon SN2 2JE
Received 25 Sept 2026The Pound Nell Hill Hannington Swindon SN6 7RT
Received 28 Sept 202641 Quarry Road Old Town Swindon SN1 4EN
Received 25 Sept 20265 High Street Chiseldon Swindon SN4 0NQ
Received 28 Sept 20261 Moresby Close Westlea Swindon SN5 7BX
Received 28 Sept 202635 Ironstone Close Redhouse Swindon SN25 2EQ
Received 29 Sept 202631 Marlborough Road Wroughton Swindon SN4 0RX
Received 29 Sept 2026129 Rodbourne Road Swindon SN2 2AX
Received 30 Sept 20265 Maybold Crescent Haydon End Swindon SN25 1RB
Received 30 Sept 202614 Priors Hill Wroughton Swindon SN4 0RT
Received 1 Oct 2026West Bungalow Cobden Road Ferndale Swindon SN2 1DP
Received 29 Sept 202650 Sywell Road Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 4BG
Received 30 Sept 202657 Sandringham Road Lawn Swindon SN3 1HT
Received 29 Sept 202627 Lynwood Grove Moredon Swindon SN2 2LY
Received 1 Oct 202639 Belle Vue Road Old Town Swindon SN1 3HN
Received 1 Oct 2026School House Windsor Road Lawn Swindon SN3 1JP
Received 1 Oct 202636 High Street Highworth Swindon SN6 7AQ
Received 2 Oct 202636 High Street Highworth Swindon SN6 7AQ
Received 2 Oct 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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