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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.
5,526 approved · 1,321 refused · 395 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 13 Jun 2024 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
93 Millfield Road, Birmingham, B20 1ED
Received 5 Aug 2025Police Station, 53 Rose Road, Birmingham, B17 9LL
Received 6 Aug 202564 Witherford Way, Birmingham, B29 4AS
Received 5 Aug 202532 Birchwood Crescent, Birmingham, B12 8BN
Received 4 Aug 2025112 Willmott Road, Birmingham, B75 5NW
Received 4 Aug 202565 St Agathas Road, Birmingham, B8 2TT
Received 4 Aug 202523 Gladys Road, Birmingham, B25 8BX
Received 5 Aug 2025110 Yarningale Road, Birmingham, B14 6NB
Received 4 Aug 2025307 George Road, Birmingham, B23 7RY
Received 1 Aug 202555 Shaw Hill Road, Birmingham, B8 3LJ
Received 14 Jun 202538 Dawberry Fields Road, Birmingham, B14 6NU
Received 5 Aug 20258 Fellmeadow Road, Birmingham, B33 8LD
Received 11 Jun 2025627 Bordesley Green, Birmingham, B9 5XZ
Received 5 Aug 2025Street Record, Yardley Wood Road, Birmingham
Received 8 Aug 2025Street Record, Vantage Way, Birmingham
Received 8 Aug 2025Street Record, Aston Webb Boulevard, Birmingham
Received 8 Aug 2025Colmore Gate, 2 - 6 Colmore Row, Birmingham, B3 2QD
Received 8 Aug 2025Aston Villa Football Club, Trinity Road, Birmingham, B6 6HE
Received 8 Aug 20258A Stanley Road, Birmingham, B14 7NB
Received 8 Aug 2025312 Wake Green Road, Birmingham, B13 0BN
Received 8 Aug 2025100 Grosvenor Road, Birmingham, B20 3NS
Received 7 Aug 202524 Overton Grove, Birmingham, B27 7LP
Received 7 Aug 2025229 Pineapple Road, Birmingham, B30 2SY
Received 7 Aug 202525 Shard End Crescent, Birmingham, B34 7AA
Received 24 Jun 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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