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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1 approved · 1,642 refused · 283 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Dec 2013 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Street, Great Central Street and All Saints Open
Received 13 Mar 202596 Calder Road
Received 5 Sept 202321 Riverside Drive
Received 11 May 20236 Purley Road
Received 22 Jan 20244 Llewellyn Court
Received 30 Sept 202415 Amyson Road
Received 7 Sept 2023Bonney Road (numbers: 4, 6, 14, 38, 60, 97, 99, 107, 111, 112, 113, 114, 118, 121, 125, 127, 137, 139, 141, 143, 145)
Received 26 Aug 2022739 Welford Road
Received 14 Feb 20251-5 Market Place, Market Tavern
Received 29 Nov 2022119 Staveley Road
Received 5 Sept 202298 Cardinals Walk
Received 21 Apr 20227 Holmwood Drive
Received 25 Feb 202240 Down Street
Received 16 Jul 2024Lee Circle, City Industrial Units
Received 15 Jul 202514 Cairnsford Road
Received 23 Apr 20263 Ballater Close
Received 5 Apr 202336 Bridge Road
Received 26 Dec 20228 Knighton Road
Received 10 Jul 202325 Charlock Road
Received 14 Jul 202564 St Barnabas Road
Received 21 Jul 202531 Humberstone Gate, Haymarket Towers
Received 1 May 2025125 Belgrave Road
Received 14 Jun 202260 Duxbury Road
Received 13 Feb 2024203 Gwendolen Road
Received 24 Nov 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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