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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1 approved · 1,501 refused · 245 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land at Fletton Close, Leicester
Received 5 Sept 202311 Knighton Fields Road West
Received 30 Sept 202619 Oliver Road
Received 5 Dec 202214 Discovery Road
Received 13 Apr 2026233 Queens Road
Received 22 Sept 20229 Carpe Road
Received 26 May 202638 Lynmouth Road
Received 21 Jan 202541 Lancashire Street
Received 6 Nov 202431 Lutterworth Road
Received 11 Jul 202431 Charter Street, Leicester Community Sports Arena
Received 13 Jun 20221 Wintersdale Road
Received 6 Mar 20236 Lobbs Wood Close
Received 26 Apr 2023169 Trevino Drive
Received 25 Aug 20222 Westbridge Close
Received 5 Dec 2024Vaughan Way, west of Highcross Shopping Centre, to rear of Showcase Cinema and adjacent to Nando's
Received 20 Jul 202328 Frisby Road
Received 13 Jun 202224 South Knighton Road
Received 22 Sept 202227 Hobson Road
Received 25 Sept 202315 Brightside Road
Received 26 Nov 202479 Dronfield Street
Received 21 Aug 2023220 Fosse Road South
Received 12 Sept 202312 Lower Brown Street, Knightsbridge House
Received 6 May 202511 Gallowtree Gate
Received 21 Oct 202219 Westmorland Avenue
Received 31 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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