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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0 approved · 1,386 refused · 228 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
14 Wilmore Crescent
Received 20 May 2022Regent Road, Regent College
Received 7 Apr 20259 Groby Road
Received 28 Aug 2026313A Scraptoft Lane
Received 8 Jan 2025141 Prestwold Road
Received 22 May 20236-8 Market Street
Received 11 Dec 20238 Tolton Road
Received 3 Jul 202518 Haymarket, Land Outside
Received 7 Aug 2026195 Scraptoft Lane
Received 27 Nov 202328-32 Shaftesbury Avenue & 88 Newington Street
Received 24 Jul 20252 Dovedale Road
Received 15 Apr 202472 Knighton Church Road, 1 The Orchard
Received 28 Nov 2025Shires Lane, Highcross,Unit R19, Block B2A, Nando's
Received 24 Jul 202490 Rotherby Avenue
Received 24 Sept 2026103 Spencefield Lane
Received 10 Oct 2023Highcross Street, Great Central Street and All Saints Open
Received 18 Nov 20227 Cameron Avenue
Received 19 Feb 202531 Stanfell Road
Received 27 Oct 202388 Dumbleton Avenue
Received 6 Feb 20239 Counting House Road, Morrisons Supermarket Land at Freemens Park, Aylestone Road
Received 14 Feb 202335 Denton Street
Received 27 Jun 202321 Tichborne Street, Markaz Quba
Received 7 Sept 202252 Northcote Road
Received 17 Mar 2023315 London Road, Stoneygate Baptist Church
Received 10 May 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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