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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
13,914 approved · 1,246 refused · 793 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 Feb 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
Durnos Nurseries Old Holly Lane Atherstone CV9 2HD
Received 14 Jul 20233 Hall Walk Coleshill Birmingham Warwickshire B46 3ES
Received 2 Sept 2010Orchard Cottage Wishaw Road Middleton B78 2AX
Received 5 Apr 202420a Spon Lane Grendon Atherstone Warwickshire CV9 2PD
Received 31 Jul 2017Land 10 Metres North West Of 9 Green Lane Grendon
Received 19 Sept 2023Polesworth School Dordon Road Polesworth Staffordshire B78 1QT
Received 17 Sept 2012New House Farm Wishaw Lane Curdworth Birmingham B76 9EA
Received 5 Dec 2014HIGHWAY POINT GORSEY LANE COLESHILL
Received 1 Mar 199957A LONG STREET ATHERSTONE WARWICKSHIRE
Received 22 May 2001UNIT 7 & 8 NETHERWOOD IND ESTATE & UNIT 4E RACEMEADOW ROAD ATHERSTONE
Received 22 Feb 2000Land Adjacent To Dog Inn Marsh Lane Water Orton
Received 14 Apr 2025The Byre Brook End Lane Hurley Atherstone Warwickshire CV9 2JP
Received 24 Oct 2013Core 1 - Core 42 Business Park Meridian Drive Dordon
Received 13 Apr 2021Wigston Hill House Black Smith Lane Baxterley CV9 2HW
Received 29 Jun 2017Coleshill Manor Campus South Drive Coleshill B46 1DL
Received 22 Apr 2021Dordon Institute Social Club Browns Lane Dordon Tamworth B78 1TL
Received 20 May 2024Trinity House Trinity Road Kingsbury B78 2LA
Received 29 Jun 202215 Spinney Close Polesworth Tamworth Warwickshire B78 1BD
Received 1 Mar 2010De Mulder and Sons Ltd Mancetter Road Hartshill CV10 0RT
Received 24 Jul 20143 Digby Crescent Water Orton B46 1NP
Received 3 Jul 202336 Greendale Close Atherstone CV9 1PR
Received 17 Sept 201810 Elms Drive Austrey Warwickshire CV9 3EL
Received 11 Mar 200814 Salisbury Drive Water Orton Birmingham B46 1QJ
Received 25 Mar 20252 NIGHTINGALE COTTAGE TAMWORTH ROAD NETHER WHITACRE
Received 11 Oct 1999Records 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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