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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1 approved · 1,694 refused · 301 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Dec 2013 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
13 Overdale Road
Received 23 Jan 20231 Southview Drive
Received 22 Aug 202328 Halkin Street
Received 2 Sept 202598 Headland Road
Received 13 Oct 2021115 Abbey Park Road, Land Adjacent
Received 13 Dec 202414 Vicarage Lane
Received 16 Jul 202420 Blackbird Avenue
Received 23 Oct 2023263 Uppingham Road
Received 27 Jan 202520 Diseworth Street
Received 22 Dec 202224 Holmfield Road
Received 3 Sept 20242 Maidenwell Avenue, Tesco
Received 3 Sept 2025St Martin's, St Martin's Cathedral Church
Received 28 Feb 2025136 Harrison Road
Received 31 Mar 2022Walnut Street Bridge
Received 5 Feb 20247-9 Charnwood Walk
Received 11 Jan 202317 Baden Road
Received 8 Nov 202216 Billington Close
Received 31 Jul 2026157 Victoria Road East
Received 9 Sept 20253 Steeple Drive
Received 18 Jul 2023Claydon Road, Merrydale Junior School
Received 10 Oct 2023Vaughan Way, Pavement to north of Highcross Shopping Centre
Received 20 Jul 20239 Bishop Meadow
Received 2 Jun 2025112 Melrose Street, Garage Court After
Received 19 Jul 20247 Shaftesbury Road
Received 7 Nov 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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