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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
14,740 approved · 1,352 refused · 852 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Sept 1997 to 23 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 27 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
UPS Tamworth Plot 2 - G Park Ansley Hall Drive Birch Coppice Business Park Dordon B78 1BF
Received 23 Dec 20144 Charlotte Way Atherstone CV9 1AS
Received 28 Jul 2025Oldbury Farm Purley Chase Lane Mancetter Atherstone CV9 2RQ
Received 8 Feb 2021CHAPEL END METHODIST CHURCH COLESHILL ROAD CHAPEL END HARTSHILL
Received 21 May 1999Hillside Hoggrills End Lane Nether Whitacre B46 2DD
Received 21 Mar 2018Jacksons of Arley Units 1 & 2 Springhill Industrial Park Colliers Way Arley Warwickshire CV7 8HN
Received 7 Jun 2010Melbicks Garden Centre Chester Road B46 3HY
Received 5 Sept 2022THE RECTORY GRENDON ROAD GRENDON
Received 6 Sept 199916 Westwood Road Atherstone CV9 2AY
Received 12 Mar 20269 Fillongley Road Maxstoke Coleshill B46 2QY
Received 28 Nov 2017Welcome Break Motorway Services (Northbound) Smorrall Lane Corley CV7 8BL
Received 23 Dec 2015Atm Site Tesco Station Street Atherstone Warwickshire
Received 10 Nov 20235 SORREL DRIVE KINGSBURY
Received 10 Aug 199958 Coventry Road Coleshill B46 3EE
Received 7 Apr 2015Aldi Stores Limited Holly Lane Atherstone Warwickshire CV9 2SQ
Received 29 Oct 201358 HIGH STREET POLESWORTH WARWICKSHIRE
Received 27 Jan 2000The Swan Hotel High Street Coleshill B46 3BL
Received 24 Oct 201628 Birmingham Road Ansley Warwickshire CV10 9PS
Received 12 May 2014Greenacres Nuneaton Road Atherstone Warwickshire CV9 1RS
Received 11 Feb 2009LAND REAR OF 108-110 HIGH STREET COLESHILL WARWICKSHIRE
Received 15 Mar 2001School Farm Barn New End road Maxstoke
Received 27 Oct 202130 Vicarage Lane Water Orton Warks B46 1RX
Received 4 Mar 2014Plot E1 (a) Danny Morson Way Birch Coppice Business Park Dordon Warwickshire B78 1SS
Received 3 Mar 2010VILLAGE FARM BIRMINGHAM ROAD ANSLEY
Received 27 Oct 1997Records 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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