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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.
5,792 approved · 1,384 refused · 422 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 31 May 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
167 Eastfield Road, Birmingham, B9 5UG
Received 24 Oct 2025115 Wake Green Road, Birmingham, B13 9US
Received 24 Oct 2025Imperial Court, 10 Sovereign Road, Birmingham, B30 3FH
Received 27 Oct 202585 Portland Road, Birmingham, B16 9QX
Received 27 Oct 202537 Norfolk Road, Birmingham, B75 6SQ
Received 27 Oct 2025179 Alcester Road South, Birmingham, B14 6DD
Received 27 Oct 202523 Bexley Road, Birmingham, B44 0AE
Received 24 Oct 202598 Davey Road, Birmingham, B20 3EG
Received 24 Oct 202530 Squires Croft, Birmingham, B76 2RY
Received 27 Oct 202566 Great Hampton Street, Birmingham, B18 6EW
Received 27 Oct 2025182 Haunch Lane, Birmingham, B13 0QR
Received 27 Oct 20251277 Stratford Road, Birmingham, B28 9AJ
Received 27 Oct 2025201 May Lane, Birmingham, B14 4AW
Received 27 Oct 20252352 Coventry Road, Birmingham, B26 3LS
Received 27 Oct 2025Cheston Industrial Estate, Cheston Road, Birmingham, B7 5EE
Received 27 Oct 2025106 Sheldonfield Road, Birmingham, B26 3RP
Received 27 Oct 20251 - 7 Langleys Road, Birmingham, B29 6HR
Received 27 Oct 20255 Radford Road, Birmingham, B29 4RB
Received 27 Oct 202526 Collingbourne Avenue, Birmingham, B36 8JP
Received 27 Oct 202584 Laurel Road, Birmingham, B21 9PG
Received 27 Oct 202565 Woolmore Road, Birmingham, B23 7EB
Received 27 Oct 2025383 Dudley Road, Birmingham, B18 4HD
Received 27 Oct 2025129 Oxford Road, Birmingham, B13 9SG
Received 27 Oct 20254 Homedene Road, Birmingham, B31 1EW
Received 27 Oct 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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