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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.
Northern Ireland · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Belfast City Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
38 approved · 1 refused · 0 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 Jun 2026 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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11 Lower Crescent, Belfast, BT7 1NS
Received 3 Aug 202671 Belmont Road, Belfast, BT4 2AA
Received 22 Jun 20269 Mill Valley Way, Belfast, BT14 8LH
Received 26 Sept 202630 Ailesbury Road, Belfast, BT7 3FH
Received 7 Aug 2026Site of Suffolk Primary School 67 Blacks Road, Belfast, BT11 9LS
Received 4 Aug 202610 Eastleigh Drive, Belfast, BT4 3DX
Received 20 Jul 2026Former Good Shepherd Centre at lands at No. 511 Ormeau Road Belfast BT7 3GS
Received 21 Aug 2026722 St Gerards Roman Catholic Church, Antrim Road, Newtownabbey, BT36 7PG
Received 6 Oct 2026184 Stranmillis Road, Belfast, BT9 5DT
Received 6 Aug 2026Lands at the Titanic Quarter, between Hamilton Road, Queens Road and Sydenham Road. Immediately NE, E and SE of Belfast Metropolitan College, approximately 150m SE of Titanic Hotel, 8 Queens Road, Belfast, BT3 9DT.
Received 17 Jul 2026Translink railway bridge, approx. 8 metres to the north-west of No. 46 Upper Dunmurry Lane, Dunmurry.
Received 11 Aug 202615 Beechlands, Belfast, BT9 5HU
Received 6 Sept 202621 Norfolk Drive, Belfast, BT11 8AE
Received 4 Jul 20262 The Vines, Belfast, BT10 0GP
Received 2 Jul 20269 Sandown Park South, Belfast, BT5 6HE
Received 27 Sept 202653 Malone Park, Belfast, BT9 6NN
Received 1 Jul 20262 Carolhill Gardens, Belfast, BT4 2FS
Received 20 Aug 2026Northland House 3-5 Fredrick Street, Belfast, BT1 2LW
Received 9 Sept 202613 Glenmillan Drive, Belfast, BT4 2JF
Received 27 Aug 2026396 Beersbridge Road, Belfast, BT5 5EA
Received 14 Aug 2026765 Antrim Road, Belfast, BT15 4EP
Received 3 Aug 202630 Hannahstown Hill, Hannahstown, Belfast, BT17 0LT
Received 10 Jul 202625 Ladybrook Crescent, Belfast, BT11 9ES
Received 23 Jul 20264 Norwood Court, Belfast, BT4 2ES
Received 4 Jul 2026Records 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.
Planning procedures in Northern Ireland differ from those in England. Use the authority’s own guidance for application requirements, comments and decision timescales.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Belfast City 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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