Understanding planning · 13 min read
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 Westminster. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
535 approved · 68 refused · 22 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 7 Mar 2025 to 24 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 28 Sept 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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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.
Basement And Ground Floor 411 Oxford Street London W1C 2PE
Received 8 May 20261 Portman Square London W1H 6DG
Received 8 May 2026192 Sutherland Avenue London W9 1RX
Received 8 May 2026House 1, House 2 And House 3 42 - 48 Bell Street London NW1 5AW
Received 11 May 2026Basement And Ground Floor Front 70 Old Compton Street London W1D 4UL
Received 11 May 202614 - 16 Cockspur Street London SW1Y 5BL
Received 5 May 20269 Burton Mews London SW1W 9EP
Received 12 May 2026Flat 6 1 Rutland Gate London SW7 1BL
Received 12 May 2026Basement And Ground Floor 37 Beak Street London W1F 9RZ
Received 12 May 2026Basement And Ground Floor 37 Beak Street London W1F 9RZ
Received 12 May 2026189 Baker Street London NW1 6UY
Received 12 May 20266 Suffolk Street London
Received 27 Apr 202693 - 95 Wardour Street London W1F 0UD
Received 13 May 2026Open Space Rutland Gate London SW7 1BH
Received 13 May 20266 Suffolk Street London
Received 13 May 202624 Sussex Gardens London W2 1UL
Received 13 May 202624 Sussex Gardens London W2 1UL
Received 13 May 2026Century House 31 - 32 Soho Square London W1D 3AP
Received 13 May 202651 Sutherland Place London W2 5BY
Received 13 May 202682 Wilton Road London SW1V 1DL
Received 14 May 20262 Hyde Park Square London W2 2JY
Received 14 May 202619 Henrietta Street London WC2E 8QH
Received 15 May 2026Manette Street London
Received 15 May 2026Flat 1 5 Grittleton Road London W9 2DD
Received 15 May 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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Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for City of Westminster, 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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