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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1 approved · 1,500 refused · 245 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Keyham Lane, Keyham Lodge School
Received 5 Feb 2025Beaumont Shopping Centre Car Park
Received 25 Mar 2024Land South Of, Uppingham Road, Bushby
Received 8 Jul 202657 Rutland Street
Received 28 Aug 2024295 Loughborough Road; land adjacent
Received 20 Mar 202410 South Kingsmead Road
Received 13 May 20227 Coplow Avenue
Received 17 Jul 2023138 Broad Avenue
Received 25 Mar 202423 Balmoral Close
Received 20 Apr 2022St Pauls Church, Falmouth Road
Received 18 Nov 202547 Alderton Close
Received 14 Jun 202312 Balcombe Avenue
Received 28 Feb 202281 Wakerley Road
Received 28 Feb 20258B Elms Road
Received 1 May 2024107 Granby Street, Last Plantagenet
Received 16 Nov 202211 Pasley Road
Received 29 Jan 2024Shree Hanuman Temple, 299 Melton Road
Received 23 Sept 202422 Chater Close
Received 15 Dec 2022161 Waterside Road
Received 22 May 202321 Braunstone Avenue
Received 19 Aug 2022Broad Avenue
Received 21 Dec 20228 Burgess Road
Received 11 Jul 202510 Aysgarth Road
Received 27 Jan 202517 Minster Crescent
Received 11 Jan 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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