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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.
5,111 approved · 628 refused · 170 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
23 Chipstone Close Hillfield Solihull B91 3YS
Received 10 Mar 202565 Stanway Road Shirley Solihull B90 3JF
Received 10 Mar 202592 Knowle Wood Road Dorridge Solihull B93 8JP
Received 10 Mar 202534 Bickenhill Road Marston Green Solihull B37 7EL
Received 10 Mar 2025109 Longdon Road Knowle Solihull B93 9HY
Received 10 Mar 2025Braceys Business Park St. Peters Lane Bickenhill Solihull B92 0DP
Received 10 Mar 2025The Drive 2 Stripes Hill Warwick Road Knowle Solihull B93 0DS
Received 7 Mar 202542 Sansome Road Shirley Solihull B90 2BP
Received 7 Mar 2025Lavender Hall Lane Overbridge Is Located Along The Existing Lavender Hall Lane Close To Its Junction With Park Lane, Northeast Of Balsall Common
Received 7 Mar 2025Land To The North Of East Way And The A45 Coventry Road, And To The East Of Middle Bickenhill Lane, Intersecting Hollywell Brook
Received 10 Mar 202549 Station Road Knowle Solihull B93 0HN
Received 11 Mar 20251 - 17 Newborough Road Shirley Solihull B90 2HA
Received 11 Mar 202544 Bryanston Road Olton Solihull B91 1EN
Received 11 Mar 20253 Horrell Road Shirley Solihull B90 2JS
Received 11 Mar 2025148 Longdon Road Knowle Solihull B93 9HU
Received 11 Mar 2025319 Station Road Dorridge Solihull B93 8ET
Received 11 Mar 202576 Woodford Avenue Castle Bromwich Solihull B36 9AU
Received 7 Mar 2025L Lynch Plant Hire Cornets End Lane Meriden Solihull CV7 7LH
Received 11 Mar 20252 Wilton Road Balsall Common Solihull CV7 7QW
Received 7 Mar 2025315 Station Road Dorridge Solihull B93 8ET
Received 10 Mar 202524 Balmoral Road Smiths Wood Solihull B36 0JT
Received 7 Mar 202551A Streetsbrook Road Solihull B90 3PD
Received 7 Mar 202558 Walford Drive Elmdon Solihull B92 9DR
Received 10 Mar 20254 Dursley Close Elmdon Solihull B92 8RA
Received 3 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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