Understanding planning · 13 min read
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.
5,111 approved · 628 refused · 170 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 26 Nov 2019 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
77 Starbold Crescent Knowle Solihull B93 9LB
Received 6 Mar 2025Car Park 6 Jetstream Road Birmingham Airport Solihull
Received 6 Mar 202594 Ladbrook Road Solihull B91 3RW
Received 5 Mar 202523 Barton Drive Knowle Solihull B93 0PE
Received 7 Mar 2025127 Dove House Lane Solihull B91 2EL
Received 7 Mar 2025Trevallion Stud Wootton Green Lane Balsall Common Solihull CV7 7BQ
Received 3 Mar 2025198 Streetsbrook Road Solihull B90 3PQ
Received 7 Mar 2025Grove Cottage Grove Farm Jacobean Lane Knowle Solihull B93 9LP
Received 7 Mar 2025Catesby House Kingshurst Way Kingshurst Solihull B37 6DZ
Received 7 Mar 2025De Montfort House Shirral Grove Kingshurst Solihull B37 6JR
Received 7 Mar 2025Digby House Colletts Grove Kingshurst Solihull B37 6JE
Received 7 Mar 2025Kingshurst House Stonebridge Crescent Kingshurst Solihull B37 6JP
Received 7 Mar 2025Wingfield House Kingshurst Way Kingshurst Solihull B37 6DY
Received 7 Mar 2025Redwood House Broomcroft Road Kingshurst Solihull B37 6HB
Received 7 Mar 202519 Glendon Way Dorridge Solihull B93 8SY
Received 7 Mar 202527 Cambridge Avenue Solihull B91 1QF
Received 7 Mar 202563 Valley Road Elmdon Solihull B92 9AU
Received 7 Mar 2025Plume Of Feathers 341 Stratford Road Shirley Solihull B90 3BW
Received 7 Mar 2025Co-operative Retail Services Ltd 4 Farmhouse Way Monkspath Solihull B90 4EH
Received 7 Mar 2025107 Brookvale Road Olton Solihull B92 7JB
Received 8 Mar 20258 Hall Farm Court Kenilworth Road Knowle Solihull B93 0AD
Received 8 Mar 202518 Kingsbrook Drive Hillfield Solihull B91 3UU
Received 10 Mar 2025Oaks Farm Back Lane Meriden Solihull CV7 7LD
Received 10 Mar 2025103 Henley Crescent Solihull B91 2JH
Received 10 Mar 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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