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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.
4,810 approved · 558 refused · 309 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 Malvern Road Gorse Hill Swindon SN2 1AR
Received 5 Oct 2026Chestnut House Queens Road Hannington Swindon SN6 7RP
Received 2 Oct 202636 Oxford Road Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 4HD
Received 2 Oct 2026SN1 Station Road Swindon SN1 1DG
Received 5 Oct 2026Unit R1 Britannia Trade Park Radway Road Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 4ND
Received 5 Oct 2026Former Intel Uk Ltd Pipers Way Old Town Swindon SN3 1RJ
Received 5 Oct 2026Land Rear Of 1, 1A, 2 And 2A Headlands Cottages Headlands Grove Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN2 7HU
Received 5 Oct 202671 Avenue Road Old Town Swindon SN1 4DA
Received 5 Oct 2026152 Oxford Road Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 4HA
Received 5 Oct 2026Sturry Brook Farm 11 Highworth Road Swindon SN3 4TF
Received 6 Oct 2026Orcheston 619 Cricklade Road Swindon SN2 5AB
Received 6 Oct 2026Land North Of Blackworth Blackworth Industrial Estate Highworth Swindon SN6 7NA
Received 6 Oct 2026Unit 16 Frankland Road Blagrove Swindon SN5 8YG
Received 8 Oct 2026Moredon Sporting Hub Cheney Manor Industrial Estate Cheney Manor Swindon
Received 7 Oct 202630 Shrivenham Road Highworth Swindon SN6 7BZ
Received 8 Oct 2026Moredon Sporting Hub Cheney Manor Industrial Estate Cheney Manor Swindon
Received 8 Oct 2026Land North Of A420 Eastern Villages Swindon
Received 9 Oct 2026Carramar Kite Hill Wanborough Swindon SN4 0DD
Received 8 Oct 2026Gilmore Court Highworth Swindon
Received 6 Oct 2026115 Mulberry Grove Rodbourne Cheney Swindon SN2 1JB
Received 6 Oct 202629 East Wichel Way East Wichel Swindon SN1 7AD
Received 8 Oct 2026Unit 1 Garrard Way Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 3HY
Received 12 Oct 202623 Meadowcroft Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN2 7JP
Received 9 Oct 20268 Blake Crescent Stratton St Margaret Swindon SN3 4LR
Received 12 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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