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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1 approved · 1,666 refused · 290 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Hoods Close
Received 1 Feb 202294 Halstead Street
Received 22 Feb 202472 Abbots Road North
Received 7 Jul 202345 Shirley Avenue
Received 23 Mar 20224 Greenhill Road
Received 5 Jun 2024Hipwell Crescent
Received 18 Jan 202276 Peters Drive
Received 21 Aug 202439 Raw Dykes Road
Received 31 Mar 202336 Meadowsweet Road
Received 6 Dec 2021161 Clarendon Park Road
Received 3 Jul 202366 Burleys Way
Received 13 Apr 202352 Allerton Drive
Received 14 Feb 202249 Downing Drive
Received 16 Oct 202331 St Andrews Road, Chacksfield House
Received 22 Dec 202580 Woodbridge Road
Received 9 Oct 2024174 Welford Road
Received 29 Sept 202231-35 Welford Road
Received 25 Jan 2023114 Lutterworth Road
Received 21 Sept 20222 Disraeli Street
Received 28 May 20244 Laburnum Road
Received 15 Nov 202110 Widford Close
Received 2 May 202430 Crafton Street West
Received 3 May 202469 Bryony Road
Received 2 Dec 202423 St Johns Road
Received 11 Sept 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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