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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1 approved · 1,568 refused · 257 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Dec 2013 to 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
72 Lamborne Road
Received 31 Aug 2023Car park and land rear of Dupont Gardens/Liberty Road/Tatlow Road
Received 30 May 2024Thurlington Road/Gooding Avenue junction
Received 9 Sept 20227 Delaware Road
Received 7 May 2024Infirmary Square, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Osborne Building
Received 8 Jun 202260 Wainwright Avenue
Received 17 Feb 20259 Chorley Wood Road
Received 17 Apr 202567 Trevino Drive
Received 19 Jan 2026465 Welford Road
Received 8 May 202417A Duxbury Road, Masjid-al-husayn Mosque
Received 27 Oct 2022Market Place, Corn Exchange 1
Received 4 Apr 2025136 Canon Street
Received 26 Jul 202427 Barnsdale Road
Received 14 Feb 202326 Colwell Road
Received 2 Oct 202517 Ipswich Close
Received 15 Apr 2026Falmouth Road, Carrick Point
Received 17 Dec 202117 Coles Close
Received 13 Feb 202533 Limber Crescent
Received 1 Aug 202372 Pool Road
Received 4 Jun 202626 Parkside Close
Received 13 Feb 202318 Laburnum Road
Received 19 Apr 202221 University Road
Received 2 Jun 2023Sunningdale Road - Sunningdale Road Industrial Park
Received 1 Mar 202256 Huntingdon Road
Received 4 Jul 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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