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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 Birmingham City Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
5,372 approved · 1,292 refused · 388 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 Jul 2024 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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.
216 Fox Hollies Road, B27 7PP
Received 7 May 202595 Uplands Road, Birmingham, B21 8BU
Received 13 May 2025205 Wood Lane, Birmingham, B20 2AA
Received 13 May 202574 Foxton Road, Birmingham, B8 3HP
Received 9 May 202596 Bristol Road, Birmingham, B5 7XJ
Received 12 May 2025The Soak, 563 - 569 Bristol Road, Birmingham, B29 6AF
Received 13 May 202540 Allcroft Road, Birmingham, B11 3EB
Received 13 May 202575 Oak Farm Road, Birmingham, B30 1ET
Received 13 May 202592 Dawlish Road, Birmingham, B29 7AA
Received 13 May 2025312 Lakey Lane, Birmingham, B28 8RD
Received 12 May 202578 Barrows Lane, Birmingham, B26 1SA
Received 12 May 202515 Reddicap Hill, Birmingham, B75 7BH
Received 9 May 2025127 Fieldhouse Road, Birmingham, B25 8SL
Received 2 May 2025Hill West Junior And Infant School, Clarence Road, Birmingham, B74 4LD
Received 13 May 2025105 Blakesley Road, Birmingham, B25 8RN
Received 9 May 2025Baskerville House, 2 Centenary Square, Birmingham, B1 2ND
Received 14 May 2025Birmingham Research Park, Vincent Drive, Birmingham, B15 2SQ
Received 14 May 2025St Edmund Campion Catholic School, Sutton Road, Birmingham, B23 5XA
Received 14 May 202558 Chester Street, Birmingham, B6 4BE
Received 14 May 20252 Harewood Close, Birmingham, B28 0RX
Received 14 May 2025903 Walsall Road, Birmingham, B42 1TN
Received 7 May 202535 Delamere Road, Birmingham, B28 0EP
Received 7 May 2025142 Station Road, Birmingham, B30 1DB
Received 7 May 2025153 Yardley Fields Road, Birmingham, B33 8RP
Received 27 Mar 2025Records 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 Birmingham City 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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