Understanding planning · 13 min read
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 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
965 approved · 198 refused · 0 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Mar 2024 to 21 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 22 Sept 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
Land At Lock Lane Partington
Received 21 Aug 20268 Homelands Road Sale M33 4BE
Received 21 Aug 2026Rostherne View 34 Langham Road Bowdon Altrincham WA14 3NZ
Received 21 Aug 20268 Buttermere Drive Hale Barns Altrincham WA15 0ST
Received 24 Aug 202617 Park Road Timperley Altrincham WA14 5AY
Received 24 Aug 20269 - 11 Market Street Altrincham WA14 1QE
Received 24 Aug 202624 Harrop Road Hale Altrincham WA15 9DQ
Received 24 Aug 202678 Woodhouse Road Davyhulme Manchester M41 7WX
Received 24 Aug 2026International Timber Trafford Wharf Road Trafford Park Manchester M17 1DJ
Received 24 Aug 2026Unit 1 & 2B Invincible Works Mosley Road Trafford Park Manchester M17 1HQ
Received 24 Aug 2026Land Off Lake Road Trafford Park
Received 24 Aug 2026Parkdale Dunham Road Altrincham WA14 4QG
Received 24 Aug 2026187 Barton Road Stretford Manchester M32 9RA
Received 25 Aug 2026Elmhurst 24 South Downs Road Bowdon Altrincham WA14 3HW
Received 25 Aug 2026Former British Gas Plc Heath Farm Lane Partington Manchester M31 4EH
Received 25 Aug 20265 Haigh Lawn St Margarets Road Altrincham WA14 2AP
Received 25 Aug 20266 Devon Road Flixton Manchester M41 6PN
Received 25 Aug 2026Land At Christie Road Stretford M32 0EW
Received 25 Aug 2026328 Manor Avenue Sale M33 4NE
Received 25 Aug 2026Land Adjacent To 6 Atkinson Road Sale M33 6EY
Received 26 Aug 202657 Woodhouse Lane Sale M33 4JZ
Received 26 Aug 202630 Stamford Road Bowdon Altrincham WA14 2JX
Received 26 Aug 20268 Cedar Court Edenhurst Drive Timperley Altrincham WA15 7AH
Received 26 Aug 202622 Westwood Road Stretford Manchester M32 9HX
Received 26 Aug 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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Trafford Metropolitan 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.
Check collection coverage