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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1,476 approved · 4 refused · 42 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Development Site Salisbury Square London
Received 6 Jul 202665 Gresham Street London EC2V 7NQ
Received 6 Jul 2026Snow Hill Police Station 5 Snow Hill London EC1A 2DP
Received 6 Jul 20263 - 3A Devonshire Square London EC2M 4YA
Received 6 Jul 20263 - 3A Devonshire Square London EC2M 4YA
Received 6 Jul 202631 Liverpool Street London EC2M 7PD
Received 6 Jul 202661-65 Holborn Viaduct London EC1A 2FD
Received 7 Jul 2026Site Bounded By King William Street, Cannon Street, Abchurch Lane & Nicholas Lane London EC4N 7DA
Received 7 Jul 2026Site Bounded By King William Street, Cannon Street, Abchurch Lane & Nicholas Lane London EC4N 7DA
Received 7 Jul 2026Central Criminal Court Old Bailey London EC4M 7EH
Received 7 Jul 202681 Newgate Street London EC1A 7HQ
Received 7 Jul 202626 Throgmorton Street And 123 Old Broad Street, London EC2N 2AN
Received 8 Jul 2026Ground Floor And Basement, 26 Throgmorton Street And 123 Old Broad Street, London EC2N 2AN
Received 8 Jul 2026Adelaide House London Bridge London EC4R 9HA
Received 8 Jul 2026Development Site 2 Aldermanbury Square London
Received 19 May 202615 Devonshire Square London EC2M 4YW
Received 8 Jul 20261 Exchange Square London EC2A 2EH
Received 17 Jun 2026Finsbury House 23 Finsbury Circus London EC2M 7EA
Received 8 Jul 20261 St Martin's-le-grand London EC1A 4AS
Received 8 Jul 202612 - 20 Wyvil Road, London, SW8 2TG
Received 7 Jul 202625 Ropemaker Street, Ropemaker Place, London, EC2Y 9LY
Received 7 Jul 202641 - 46, The Vaults, Chiswell Street, London, EC1Y 4SB
Received 9 Jul 2026West Market Building London Central Markets London EC1A 9PS
Received 9 Jul 2026Lauderdale Tower, Shakespeare Tower And Cromwell Tower Barbican London
Received 10 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.
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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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