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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 Leicester City Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
1 approved · 1,491 refused · 244 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Dec 2013 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
Pescall Boulevard, Land at Former Rocket Studios
Received 1 Nov 20226 Flora Street
Received 12 Jul 202342 Market Place
Received 9 Jan 202694 Downing Drive
Received 2 Dec 20243 Ramsbury Road
Received 13 Jan 202526-28 Belvoir Street
Received 5 Sept 202348 Staveley Road
Received 10 Dec 2025280 East Park Road, Spinney Hill Apartments
Received 19 Jun 2026309 Saffron Lane
Received 13 May 20251 Heybridge Road
Received 24 Aug 202216 Kingsway Road
Received 5 Jun 2023Leicester Royal Infirmary, Balmoral Building
Received 28 Jan 202512 Cheltenham Road
Received 14 Mar 202294 Glazebrook Road
Received 16 Nov 2022166 Glenfield Road
Received 30 Jan 202610 June Avenue
Received 21 Sept 202621 Kirby Road
Received 5 Jun 202461 Kitchener Road
Received 29 Aug 202348 Larch Street
Received 4 Aug 2026Chestnut House, 20 Knighton Drive, Flat 1, Leicester, LE2 3HB
Received 6 Jan 2025East Avenue, St John The Baptist C Of E Primary School
Received 3 Oct 2022Ashton Green, Parcel 4
Received 6 May 2025285-287 Welford Road
Received 18 Dec 202442 Mountcastle Road
Received 6 Jul 2022Records 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 Leicester 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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