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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0 approved · 1,375 refused · 224 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Dec 2013 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
31 Gilmorton Avenue, Land Adjacent to
Received 26 May 202350 Haddon Street
Received 6 Nov 2024281 Fosse Road South
Received 14 Feb 2025Knighton Mead Primary Academy, Knighton Fields Road West
Received 10 Mar 202329 Upper King Street
Received 12 Jan 202324 Christopher Drive
Received 6 Feb 2025Blackbird Road, Ian Marlow Centre
Received 25 Apr 20249 Ratcliffe Road
Received 19 Jun 202658 Oakland Avenue
Received 18 Sept 2025369 Gleneagles Avenue
Received 22 Nov 2023Fletton Close, Leicester
Received 17 Jul 2023537 Welford Road
Received 13 Mar 2024248 Green Lane Road
Received 5 Oct 20235 Granville Road
Received 5 Dec 202413 King Street
Received 5 Mar 2024207 Uppingham Road
Received 25 Apr 2024289 New Parks Boulevard
Received 16 Feb 20242a Spinney Hill Road, Global House
Received 15 Nov 202281 Belper Street
Received 26 Jan 202328 Sidney Road, Land After
Received 6 Jun 202457 Humberstone Road, Advertising Adjacent
Received 12 Nov 2024Abbey Lane, FirstGroup Depot
Received 12 May 2022Soar Valley College
Received 27 Feb 2023123 Letchworth Road
Received 9 Oct 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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