Understanding planning · 13 min read
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.
4 approved · 1,974 refused · 375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Dec 2013 to 14 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 18 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Hobart Street, Flat A
Received 16 Aug 2024614 Welford Road, Playing Fields After
Received 22 Oct 2024Conduit Street, The Dawn Centre
Received 14 Dec 202235 Raywell Road
Received 4 Feb 20256 St Dunstan Road
Received 1 Apr 202144 Marsden Lane
Received 7 Dec 202120 Bardolph Street
Received 1 Jan 202453A London Road
Received 9 Feb 2021Gilmorton Avenue, Land rear of 107-109 Lutterworth Road,
Received 25 Oct 2021339 Saffron Lane
Received 27 Jun 202483 Downing Drive
Received 7 Jun 202236 Mantle Road
Received 19 Sept 202515 Knighton Park Road
Received 20 Jan 2025689 Aylestone Road, Old Aylestone Conservative Club
Received 6 Feb 202612 Rockery Close
Received 13 Nov 2025138 Doncaster Road
Received 20 Jan 202323 Barling Road
Received 12 Feb 202450 Hand Avenue
Received 28 Mar 20231 Baldwin Road
Received 27 Mar 20255 Bowling Green Street
Received 1 Feb 202142 Clarefield Road
Received 29 Jan 2024250 Kashmir Road, Sabarmati House
Received 10 Feb 20222 Memory Lane
Received 12 Mar 202111 Paton Street
Received 13 Jun 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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