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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1 approved · 1,513 refused · 248 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Highcross Leicester Shopping Centre - East Gates Entrance
Received 24 Oct 2024Groby Road, Glenfield Hospital
Received 8 Jan 2024Holy Trinity Church Office 2 Upper King Street
Received 24 Aug 2023103 Moores Road
Received 8 Nov 202258 Meynell Road
Received 7 Oct 2026129 Vernon Road
Received 12 Aug 2024Shop, 135 Melton Road
Received 29 Jan 2025109 Letchworth Road
Received 26 Sept 2022128 Doncaster Road
Received 20 Oct 202256 Colchester Road
Received 5 Dec 202218 Wyvern Avenue
Received 8 Dec 202527 Normanton Road
Received 18 Dec 20236 Fosse Road South, Gordon House
Received 5 Jun 20247-9 Welford Road
Received 23 Sept 202216 Lindfield Road
Received 10 Feb 2022413 London Road, Sefton House
Received 14 Nov 202210 St Philips Road
Received 8 Dec 2025100 Kedleston Road
Received 21 Aug 202333 - 35 Frog Island and Farben Works, Slater Street
Received 17 Jun 202569 Sharmon Crescent
Received 29 Apr 202570 Slater Street, Leisure Centre
Received 4 Mar 2022De Montfort House, 100 Oxford Street
Received 5 Mar 20264 Southernhay Road
Received 16 Feb 20229 Marble Street, Marble Street
Received 27 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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