Source: Birmingham City Council·Updated daily·Last checked 7 Oct 2026
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Plota holds 4,404 current planning applications from Birmingham City Council, received since 22 Aug 2023, 861 of them in the last 90 days. Behind them, the Plota archive holds 73,859 earlier applications from Birmingham City Council, 2016 to 2025, searchable by location and keyword. Current records are collected from the council's public register at planning.birmingham.gov.uk and checked every day; the last check was on 7 Oct 2026. Each record carries the council's reference, address, proposal, dates, status and decision, with a map location and Plota's classification by type and procedure added. The council's own record is the authoritative version; every entry here links to it.
Latest application from Birmingham: 5 Oct 2026. We check the council's portal daily.