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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1 approved · 1,515 refused · 249 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
17 Blanklyn Avenue
Received 20 Dec 202254-56 Essex Road
Received 1 Jul 202543 Darenth Drive
Received 3 Feb 2025Shree Swaminarayan Temple, 139-141 Loughborough Road
Received 3 Dec 202555 Parkstone Road
Received 21 Dec 20227 Snow Hill
Received 26 Jul 2024216 Sturdee Road
Received 28 Mar 202316 Bainbridge Road
Received 11 Mar 202458 Bloomfield Road
Received 25 Feb 202533 Humberstone Drive
Received 8 Sept 20238 Knighton Drive
Received 20 Nov 2024366 Scraptoft Lane
Received 6 Mar 2025315 Humberstone Lane
Received 24 Nov 2025101 Davenport Road
Received 1 Sept 202328 Ardern Terrace
Received 4 May 202392 Syston Street East
Received 25 Sept 2024University Road, Engineering Design Lab, Fielding Johnson Building, University Of Leicester
Received 12 Oct 202252 Meadvale Road
Received 21 Feb 202239 & 39A Belvoir Street
Received 3 Aug 2023140 Westcotes Drive
Received 14 Aug 2024University Road, Wyggeston And Queen Elizabeth I College
Received 9 May 202417 Bassett Street
Received 15 Jun 202640 Sybil Road
Received 20 Apr 202215a Humberstone Gate, Units 2-3 Haymarket Towers
Received 12 Jan 2026Records 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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