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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 City of London Corporation. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
1,476 approved · 4 refused · 42 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Oct 2021 to 16 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 28 Sept 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
14-21 Holborn Viaduct 32-33 & 34-35 Farringdon Street London EC1A 2AT
Received 4 Jul 2025110 Cannon Street London EC4N 6EU
Received 7 Jul 202540 Holborn Viaduct London EC1N 2PB
Received 7 Jul 20251 - 14 Liverpool Street And 11 - 12 Blomfield Street London EC2M 7AW
Received 7 Jul 2025St Dunstan's House 133 - 137 Fetter Lane London EC4A 1BF
Received 7 Jul 2025City Tower And City Place House 40 - 55 Basinghall Street London EC2V
Received 7 Jul 2025Art Gallery Barbican Arts And Conference Centre Silk Street London EC2Y 8DS
Received 7 Jul 2025Art Gallery Barbican Arts And Conference Centre Silk Street London EC2Y 8DS
Received 7 Jul 2025Art Gallery Barbican Arts And Conference Centre Silk Street London EC2Y 8DS
Received 7 Jul 202510-16 Bevis Marks London EC3A 7LH
Received 7 Jul 2025Tower 42 International Financial Centre 25 Old Broad Street London EC2N 1HQ
Received 8 Jul 202559 Carter Lane London EC4V 5AQ
Received 8 Jul 20259A - 9B Crutched Friars London EC3N 2AU
Received 8 Jul 2025362 Lauderdale Tower Barbican London EC2Y 8NA
Received 8 Jul 20251 - 2 Broadgate London EC2M 2QS
Received 8 Jul 2025St Magnus House 3 Lower Thames Street London EC3R 6HD
Received 9 Jul 202511 Pilgrim Street London EC4V 6RN
Received 9 Jul 2025100 Fetter Lane London EC4A 1ES
Received 9 Jul 2025Snow Hill Police Station 5 Snow Hill London EC1A 2DP
Received 9 Jul 20251 Old Jewry London EC2R 8DN
Received 9 Jul 20257 King's Bench Walk London EC4Y 7DS
Received 10 Jul 202515 - 17 Black Friars Lane London EC4V 6ER
Received 10 Jul 202515 - 17 Black Friars Lane London EC4V 6ER
Received 10 Jul 2025The Parish Church of St Olave Hart Street Hart Street London EC3R 7NB
Received 10 Jul 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 City of London Corporation, 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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