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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.
7,301 approved · 1,798 refused · 527 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 18 Dec 2023 to 15 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 17 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
33 Hamstead Hill, Birmingham, B20 1BN
Received 31 Mar 202633 Twickenham Road, Birmingham, B44 0NP
Received 31 Mar 2026Street Record, Bristol Road South, Birmingham
Received 31 Mar 202687 Fox Hollies Road, Birmingham, B76 2RN
Received 31 Mar 202643 Templefield Gardens, Birmingham, B9 4NY
Received 31 Mar 2026Beacon Evangelical Church, 47 Sandwell Road, Birmingham, B21 8NH
Received 1 Apr 202642 Hill Village Road, Birmingham, B75 5BA
Received 31 Mar 2026100 Hubert Road, Birmingham, B29 6ER
Received 31 Mar 2026126 Tamworth Road, Birmingham, B75 6DH
Received 31 Mar 20268 Highters Road, Birmingham, B14 4NA
Received 31 Mar 202629 Millfield Road, Birmingham, B20 1EF
Received 30 Mar 202660 Francis Road, Birmingham, B33 8SN
Received 30 Mar 2026258 Coleshill Road, Birmingham, B36 8BG
Received 30 Mar 202610 Abbess Grove, Birmingham, B25 8YB
Received 31 Mar 2026Warwickshire County Cricket Ground, Edgbaston Road, Birmingham, B5 7QU
Received 1 Apr 2026The Black Eagle, 16 Factory Road, Birmingham, B18 5JU
Received 1 Apr 2026Street Record, Harford Street, Birmingham
Received 8 Apr 202633 Great Hampton Street, Birmingham, B18 6AA
Received 8 Apr 202650 Yateley Crescent, Birmingham, B42 1JQ
Received 7 Apr 202620 Fosbrooke Road, Birmingham, B10 9JX
Received 7 Apr 2026Unit 5 Ground Floor, 19 - 23 Pitsford Street, Birmingham, B18 6LJ
Received 7 Apr 202689 North Park Road, Birmingham, B23 7YU
Received 7 Apr 2026Sutton Coldfield Hospital, Birmingham Road, Birmingham, B72 1QH
Received 7 Apr 20262 Willaston Road, Birmingham, B33 0PY
Received 8 Apr 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.
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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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