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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1 approved · 1,521 refused · 251 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 23 May 2023Land at Hillview, 1B Blackmore Drive
Received 17 Jul 20232 Woodland Avenue
Received 13 Jul 202322 Buscot Close
Received 20 Feb 2023119 Clarendon Park Road
Received 16 Apr 20259 Beechcroft Road
Received 6 Jun 202285 Cobden Street
Received 7 Feb 202326 Yelverton Avenue
Received 23 Dec 202424 Cantrell Road
Received 29 Oct 20246 Mostyn Street, The Help Foundation
Received 13 Nov 2023288 Evington Road
Received 24 Jan 202260 Deepdale
Received 19 Mar 2025Infirmary Square, Leicester Royal Infirmary
Received 25 May 20238 Burgess Road
Received 20 Dec 20237 Honeysuckle Road
Received 9 Sept 2026Beatrice Road, Pegasus House
Received 29 Mar 202287 High Street
Received 9 Feb 20243 Wheatley Road
Received 15 Apr 2024Units 1 & 2 Jaswal Building, 3 Gas Street
Received 13 Jun 202429-33 New Bond Street
Received 29 Jul 2024Melton Road , Land North of Sainsburys
Received 3 Jul 202332 Ratcliffe Road
Received 10 Feb 2026115 Evington Valley Road, Dunlop Business Centre
Received 5 Feb 2024117 Harrow Road
Received 13 Oct 2022Records 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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