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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1 approved · 1,553 refused · 256 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
College Street, Collegiate House
Received 16 Sept 20242 Southland Road
Received 10 Jul 2025Highcross Leicester Shopping Centre - Church Gate Entrance
Received 19 Jun 20258 Brightside Road
Received 29 Apr 20252 Wintergreen Close
Received 25 Apr 20226 Great Meadow Road
Received 27 Jun 202520 Stoughton Road
Received 21 Nov 202284 Copdale Road
Received 24 Mar 2025Petrol Filling Station, 223 Fosse Road North
Received 29 Jun 20262 Spinney Hill Road
Received 20 Oct 2021178 Humberstone Drive
Received 12 Dec 2025242 Gwendolen Road
Received 17 Oct 202295A Queens Road
Received 21 Aug 202423 Staveley Road
Received 29 Aug 202317 Evington Road
Received 5 Jul 20226 Heanor Street
Received 2 Feb 20229 Springfield Road, St Johns Vicarage
Received 17 Dec 2021Groby Road, Glenfield Hospital, the Bradgate Centre, Pharmacy building
Received 16 Nov 202326 Winders Way
Received 13 Mar 2023Dillon Road (numbers 27, 43)
Received 16 Dec 202215 Southernhay Road
Received 26 Feb 202439 Glendon Street
Received 20 Aug 20252 Halford Street, Imperial Buildings
Received 12 May 202647 Lancaster Place
Received 25 Mar 2025Records 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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