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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
14,794 approved · 1,365 refused · 855 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jul 1997 to 27 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 28 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land South of Hartshill Castle Horse Lane/Castle Road Hartshill
Received 29 Mar 2018Land to the North of Nuthurst Crescent Ansley
Received 22 Jan 20191 Samuel White Close Middleton Tamworth B78 2AQ
Received 30 Nov 201714 FRIARY ROAD ATHERSTONE WARWICKSHIRE
Received 5 Dec 2002Fir Tree Farm Breach Oak Lane Fillongley Warwickshire CV7 8DE
Received 24 Nov 2010Plot 1 Ocado Phase 2 Danny Morson Way Birch Coppice Business Park Dordon Warwickshire B78 1SE
Received 10 May 20133 Bishops Meadow The Green Austrey CV9 3DF
Received 3 Jun 2020FORMER POST OFFICE 123-129 HIGH STREET COLESHILL
Received 15 Mar 200126 Atherstone Road Hartshill Nuneaton CV10 0SP
Received 28 Feb 202237 High Street Coleshill Warwickshire B46 1AY
Received 7 Oct 2011Car Park Park Road Coleshill Warwickshire B46 3LA
Received 17 Jan 2012Broadacres Church Road Dordon Warwickshire B78 1RW
Received 10 Mar 2011New House Farm Tamworth Road Middleton B78 2AE
Received 14 Feb 2025Land south of Church Walk Mancetter CV9
Received 13 Aug 2014The Shed Tippers Hill Lane Fillongley CV7 8DJ
Received 16 Oct 2015Storage Land - Hams Hall National Distribution Park Edison Road Coleshill
Received 14 May 2019Queens Head Main Road Newton Regis B79 0NF
Received 9 May 2018Merevale Childrens Hostel Folly Lane/Waste Lane Atherstone Warwickshire CV9 2EJ
Received 16 Jul 2013BAXTERLEY EQUESTRIAN CENTRE MAIN ROAD BAXTERLEY
Received 10 Sept 1998Aldi Foodstore Ltd Holly Lane Atherstone CV9 2SQ
Received 17 Dec 2014The Old Post Office Main Road Newton Regis B79 0NA
Received 15 Feb 2018164 Long Street Dordon Tamworth B78 1QA
Received 16 Dec 202521 Ennersdale Road Coleshill B46 1EP
Received 6 May 2022Bowling Green Austrey Lane Newton Regis Warwickshire
Received 21 Aug 2008Records 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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