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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
13,855 approved · 1,241 refused · 788 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Mar 1999 to 22 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 24 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
St Ives Church Lane Corley CV7 8BA
Received 1 Aug 2017Allen End Farm Middleton Lane Middleton B78 2BW
Received 24 Oct 2017The Old Rectory Rectory Drive Arley CV7 8RD
Received 21 Jul 201567 Ascot Drive Dosthill B77 1QL
Received 25 Oct 2022127 Royal Meadow Drive Atherstone CV9 3BQ
Received 27 Feb 202510 Hollyhurst Water Orton Birmingham B46 1PS
Received 6 Dec 2024Proposed Telecommunications Mast On The West Side Of Gypsy Lane Water Orton
Received 12 Sept 20239 Marie Close Mancetter Atherstone Warwickshire CV9 1NF
Received 13 Aug 2013Poplars Yard New Road Shuttington
Received 22 Sept 2017Volkswagen Group (uk) Limited Birch Coppice Business Park Danny Morson Way Dordon Tamworth Warwickshire B78 1TA
Received 1 Dec 2023Magna House 15 South Street Atherstone CV9 1DF
Received 13 Feb 2020ISLAND HOUSE NEW ROAD WATER ORTON B46 1QU
Received 5 Sept 2000The Belfry Hotel Lichfield Road Wishaw B76 9PR
Received 1 Dec 2015Land 260m South East OfNorthbound Smorrall Lane Corley Corley
Received 6 Sept 2019Marriott Forest Of Arden Hotel And Country Club Maxstoke Lane Meriden Warwickshire CV7 7HR
Received 11 Jun 200818 Montfort Road Coleshill Warwickshire B46 3LT
Received 17 Mar 2011Marlwood Bungalow Smorrall Lane Astley Nuneaton CV12 0NL
Received 28 Aug 2019LAND ADJACENT THE STAITHE WARTON LANE AUSTREY
Received 22 Dec 199936 Church Lane Arley Warwickshire CV7 8FW
Received 1 Apr 2014Miners Welfare Site Ransome Road Arley Coventry Warks CV7 8GZ
Received 13 May 2013Land North East Of Manor Farm Buildings Main Road Shuttington
Received 12 Oct 2022Land adj to 68 North Street Atherstone CV9 1JT
Received 4 Aug 2016COMMUNITY FIELD STATION ROAD POLESWORTH
Received 9 Aug 200041-43 Long Street Atherstone CV9 1AY
Received 30 Mar 2021Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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