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 Leeds City Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
2,386 approved · 566 refused · 87 withdrawn. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
259 Bradford Road Otley LS21 3LS
Received Not publishedMoorfield House Nursing Home Fieldhouse Walk Moortown Leeds LS17 6HW
Received Not publishedLand Between Westgate And Cropper Gate Leeds LS1
Received Not published32 Hartley Grove Woodhouse Leeds LS6 2LD
Received Not published1 Woodhouse Cliff Woodhouse Leeds LS6 2HF
Received Not published229 Harehills Lane Leeds LS8 3QH
Received Not published22 Long Causeway Adel Leeds LS16 8EQ
Received Not publishedProvincial Building 42 Town Street Horsforth Leeds LS18 4AP
Received Not published27 Langdale Gardens Headingley Leeds LS6 3HB
Received Not published1 Sandhurst Place Harehills Leeds LS8 3QW
Received Not published46 Town Street Carlton Wakefield WF3 3QU
Received Not publishedSovereign Street Leeds LS1 4BA
Received Not published31 Oakdene Close Pudsey LS28 9LW
Received Not published10 - 11 Town Street Rawdon Leeds LS19 6PU
Received Not publishedLand Off Barnsdale Road Allerton Bywater Castleford
Received Not published28 Weavers Close Horsforth Leeds LS18 4GL
Received Not publishedLand At Seacroft Hospital, York Road, Leeds, LS14 6UH
Received Not publishedAdams Court Whitehall Road Leeds LS12 1DB
Received Not published25 Mill Square Horsforth Leeds LS18 4GJ
Received Not published4 Mill Lane Pool In Wharfedale Otley LS21 1LR
Received Not published11 Stanmore Grove Burley Leeds LS4 2RJ
Received Not published54 Estcourt Terrace Headingley Leeds LS6 3EY
Received Not published17 Sandmead Way Morley Leeds LS27 9SF
Received Not published32 - 33 Kirkgate Leeds LS2 7DR
Received Not publishedRecords 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 Leeds 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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