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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.
5,167 approved · 635 refused · 173 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 26 Nov 2019 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 Balsall Street Balsall Common Solihull CV7 7AR
Received 27 May 2025210 Solihull Road Shirley Solihull B90 3LG
Received 4 Jun 20251214 Yardley Wood Road Solihull Lodge Solihull B90 1JY
Received 4 Jun 2025227 Longmore Road Shirley Solihull B90 3EP
Received 4 Jun 202524 Hawthorne Road Castle Bromwich Solihull B36 0HH
Received 4 Jun 2025148 Colebrook Road Shirley Solihull B90 1AY
Received 4 Jun 2025105 Chamberlain Crescent Shirley Solihull B90 2DQ
Received 5 Jun 2025Land Off Foxes Way Balsall Common Solihull
Received 5 Jun 202585 Wychwood Avenue Knowle Solihull B93 9DJ
Received 5 Jun 2025262 Coleshill Heath Road Chelmsley Wood Solihull B37 7JA
Received 6 Jun 20254 Clayton Drive Castle Bromwich Solihull B36 0AN
Received 6 Jun 2025109 Poplar Road Dorridge Solihull B93 8DG
Received 5 Jun 2025Merville Leys Lane Meriden Solihull CV7 7LQ
Received 4 Jun 2025Home Farm Kenilworth Road Knowle Solihull B93 0AB
Received 6 Jun 202530 Greenfield Avenue Balsall Common Solihull CV7 7UG
Received 6 Jun 202562 Ashlawn Crescent Solihull B91 1PS
Received 23 May 2025Land Off Benton Green Lane Berkswell Solihull
Received 6 Jun 2025163 Tilehouse Green Lane Knowle Solihull B93 9EB
Received 6 Jun 2025Lido House Sansome Road Shirley Solihull B90 2BJ
Received 7 Jun 202528 Knightsbridge Road Olton Solihull B92 8RF
Received 9 Jun 202534 Kinsham Drive Hillfield Solihull B91 3UG
Received 9 Jun 20251 Mayfield Close Hillfield Solihull B91 3FN
Received 9 Jun 202538 St. Bernards Road Olton Solihull B92 7BB
Received 9 Jun 202516 Windsor Drive Elmdon Solihull B92 8HS
Received 9 Jun 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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