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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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
4,641 approved · 555 refused · 147 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 26 Nov 2019 to 7 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
28 St. Bernards Road Olton Solihull B92 7BB
Received 2 Jan 202597 Coleshill Road Marston Green Solihull B37 7HT
Received 2 Jan 202515 Round Close Dickens Heath Solihull B90 1SW
Received 2 Jan 2025Public Grass Space Pastures Drive Tidbury Green Solihull
Received 30 Dec 20242 Ronald Grove Castle Bromwich Solihull B36 9HL
Received 2 Jan 202517 Woodford Avenue Castle Bromwich Solihull B36 9BG
Received 2 Jan 20251 Kinchford Close Hillfield Solihull B91 3JL
Received 2 Jan 202570 Chelveston Crescent Hillfield Solihull B91 3YH
Received 2 Jan 202556 Rodborough Road Dorridge Solihull B93 8EF
Received 2 Jan 202510 Beech Lane Dickens Heath Solihull B90 1FW
Received 3 Jan 202515 Micklehill Drive Shirley Solihull B90 2PU
Received 3 Jan 202550 Yoxall Road Shirley Solihull B90 3SD
Received 3 Jan 202532 Park Avenue Solihull B91 3EJ
Received 3 Jan 2025Bradnocks Barn Bradnocks Marsh Lane Bradnocks Marsh Solihull B92 0LH
Received 3 Jan 202578B Alderbrook Road Solihull B91 1NR
Received 6 Jan 202582 Cheswick Way Cheswick Green Solihull B90 4HG
Received 6 Jan 202538 Frankholmes Drive Monkspath Solihull B90 4YA
Received 5 Jan 2025White Cottage Hob Lane Burton Green Solihull CV7 7GX
Received 6 Jan 202530 Fulford Hall Road Earlswood Solihull B90 1QX
Received 6 Jan 2025663 Old Lode Lane Elmdon Solihull B92 8NB
Received 7 Jan 2025152 Wagon Lane Solihull B92 7PA
Received 7 Jan 202523 Gladstone Road Dorridge Solihull B93 8BX
Received 7 Jan 2025282 Bradford Road Castle Bromwich Solihull B36 9AB
Received 7 Jan 202524 Ringmere Avenue Castle Bromwich Solihull B36 9AT
Received 8 Jan 2025Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart 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 Solihull Metropolitan 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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