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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.
5,816 approved · 1,390 refused · 424 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 May 2024 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
586 Aldridge Road, Birmingham, B44 8NG
Received 26 Nov 2025126 Preston Road, Birmingham, B18 4PJ
Received 26 Nov 202560 Rollason Road, Birmingham, B24 9BH
Received 26 Nov 202555 Barker Street, Birmingham, B19 1EP
Received 27 Nov 202528 Livingstone Road, Birmingham, B20 3LL
Received 4 Dec 202529 Earlsmead Road, Birmingham, B21 0HU
Received 2 Dec 20251187 Tyburn Road, Birmingham, B24 0TE
Received 3 Dec 202558 Bletchley Road, Birmingham, B24 0PT
Received 19 Nov 2025751 Stratford Road, Birmingham, B11 4DG
Received 4 Dec 2025Emporium, 9 - 10 Bartholomew Row, Birmingham, B5 5JU
Received 4 Dec 2025109 - 111 Golden Hillock Road, Birmingham, B10 0DP
Received 4 Dec 202527 Nursery Road, Birmingham, B19 2XN
Received 4 Dec 2025Street Record, Bristol Road South, Birmingham
Received 4 Dec 20251138 Stratford Road, Birmingham, B28 8AE
Received 4 Dec 2025Street Record, Hillwood Road, Birmingham
Received 4 Dec 202523 Cornhill Grove, Birmingham, B30 2RR
Received 4 Dec 2025128 Trittiford Road, Birmingham, B13 0HD
Received 4 Dec 2025119 Tennal Road, Birmingham, B32 2HY
Received 4 Dec 202524 Manor House Lane, Birmingham, B26 1PG
Received 4 Dec 2025Bordesley Centre, Stratford Road, Birmingham, B11 1AR
Received 4 Dec 202557 Wychall Park Grove, Birmingham, B38 8AG
Received 4 Dec 2025Greenside, 12B Moor Hall Drive, Birmingham, B75 6LP
Received 4 Dec 20257 Greenfield Crescent, Birmingham, B15 3BE
Received 5 Dec 202557 Franklin Road, Birmingham, B30 2HJ
Received 5 Dec 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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