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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1 approved · 1,631 refused · 279 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Dec 2013 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
647 Aylestone Road
Received 3 Jun 20248 Frampton Avenue
Received 30 May 202523, 25 and 27 Whitwick Way
Received 27 Jul 202389-91 High Street
Received 4 Apr 2024Humberstone Junior Academy, Main Street
Received 2 Sept 202622-32 Wellington Street, Wellington House
Received 6 Dec 2021635 Saffron Lane
Received 18 Feb 20266 The Portwey
Received 3 Aug 202364 Cheshire Road
Received 21 Apr 20232 Toller Road
Received 29 Aug 202571 Wavertree Drive
Received 18 May 20231 New Burlington Place, SEGRO Properties Limited
Received 15 Aug 202434 Gedding Road
Received 2 Feb 202365A Nursery Road
Received 1 Oct 2025115 Wycombe Road
Received 2 Mar 20223 Cox Close
Received 5 Oct 2023498-500 Melton Road, Petrol Filling Station
Received 26 May 202328 Oxford Street, Student Roost-Newarke Street
Received 10 Dec 20241 Heybridge Road
Received 15 May 2023109 Barkby Road
Received 21 Mar 202532 Baldwin Road
Received 22 Jan 202520-22 Gotham Street
Received 10 Oct 2023133 Rosebery Street
Received 31 Jan 202460 Clarke Street
Received 22 Jul 2024Records 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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