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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.
0 approved · 1,323 refused · 208 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Dec 2013 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7 Purley Road
Received 3 May 2023188 Welford Road
Received 10 Jan 2023Land East Of, Zouche Way, Bushby, Leicestershire.
Received 12 May 202611 Swinstead Road
Received 22 Aug 202251 Heatherbrook Road
Received 12 Mar 202554 Sextant Road
Received 7 Jun 202488 Lutterworth Road, Lutterworth View
Received 24 Jun 20245 Bede Street
Received 4 Jun 202620 Shropshire Road
Received 18 Oct 202419 Woodbridge Road
Received 20 Dec 20237 Herthull Road
Received 31 Mar 20251 Highcross Lane, Units R18-R19 Highcross, Nandos
Received 24 Jul 2024131 Freeman Road North
Received 16 Jun 2022Abbey Lane, FirstGroup Depot
Received 16 Dec 2022342 St Saviours Road, Ground Floor
Received 20 Mar 202455 Pine Tree Avenue
Received 8 Jul 202483 Lytton Road
Received 4 Oct 20235 Stanley Road, Stanley Court
Received 25 Jun 20261 Humber Close
Received 9 Dec 2022Cranstone Crescent, adj. junction with Tournament Road
Received 31 Aug 2022Shaftesbury Hall, 3 Holy Bones
Received 4 Feb 202513 Fairholme Road
Received 19 Dec 2025132-140 Highcross Street and rear of 61 Great Central Street
Received 7 Jun 2023184 Spencefield Lane
Received 23 Nov 2023Records 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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