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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
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of North Warwickshire Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official North Warwickshire website
13,521 approved · 1,180 refused · 769 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Oct 1999 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Sycamores North Street Atherstone CV9 1JL
Received 28 Jan 2015International Automotive Components Highway Point Gorsey Lane Coleshill Warwickshire B46 1JU
Received 3 Feb 201218 MORRIS HILL POLESWORTH WARWICKSHIRE
Received 18 Apr 2002Welcome Break Motorway Services Smorrall Lane Corley CV7 8NR
Received 14 May 2015Stanley Brick House Coleshill Road Chapel End Warwickshire CV10 0PF
Received 13 Sept 201090 LONG STREET ATHERSTONE WARWICKSHIRE
Received 14 Mar 2003The Bungalow Ridge Lane Nuneaton CV10 0RB
Received 5 Jul 201814 Market Street Atherstone CV9 1ET
Received 31 Mar 20213 Bear Lane Close Polesworth Tamworth Warwickshire B78 1BH
Received 21 Aug 2008Wigston Hill House Black Smith Lane Baxterley CV9 2HW
Received 5 Oct 2015The Belfry Hotel Lichfield Road Wishaw B76 9PR
Received 13 Mar 2017Land rear of 70 to 78 New Street Dordon Warwickshire
Received 12 Oct 2012Land South West Of M42 Roundabout Watling Street Dordon
Received 28 Sept 2016Riviera Coventry Road Kingsbury B78 2LH
Received 13 Mar 20172 Duncombe Green Coleshill Warwickshire B46 1BP
Received 18 Apr 201339 BLYTHE ROAD COLESHILL WARWICKSHIRE
Received 23 Jan 2003Oak Tree House 49 Main Road Austrey CV9 3EH
Received 3 Aug 2016Didgley Cottage Tamworth Road Fillongley Warwickshire CV7 8DZ
Received 21 Oct 201167 Cockspur Street Polesworth Warwickshire B78 1AH
Received 16 Oct 200941 Church Road Hartshill Warwickshire CV10 0LU
Received 22 Jul 2010Hilltop House Mill Lane Fillongley Warwickshire CV7 8EE
Received 31 May 2013Land South of 1 To 7 The Beeches Laurel Avenue Polesworth B78 1LT
Received 29 Nov 2016Land South Of Gardeners Cottage Pooley Lane Polesworth
Received 12 Dec 2022Land East Of, Old Holly Lane, Atherstone
Received 26 Jun 2026Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart 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 North Warwickshire Borough 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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