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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.
2 approved · 1,837 refused · 333 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Dec 2013 to 14 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 16 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Gwendolen Road, Leicester General Hospital, Endoscopy Building
Received 13 Oct 2025308 St Saviours Road
Received 19 Jun 202648 Buxton Street
Received 10 Jun 20227 Kingswood Avenue
Received 10 Jun 202219 Westminster Road
Received 18 Jan 202248 Carisbrooke Road
Received 29 Apr 2026546 Welford Road
Received 29 Jun 202311 Thornville Close
Received 14 May 2024114 Surrey Street
Received 23 Sept 2022102 Broad Avenue
Received 6 Sept 202348 Scraptoft Lane
Received 10 Jun 2026Alderman Richard Hallam Primary School
Received 25 Aug 20218B Briton Street
Received 27 Mar 2025Repton Street, Land at
Received 17 Mar 202512 Snape Close
Received 10 Aug 202142 St Peters Road, Flat 3
Received 30 May 20227 Delaware Road
Received 20 Nov 2023Northgate Street, Soar Lane, Leicester Waterside
Received 25 Aug 2026University Road, University of Leicester, Fielding Johnson Building
Received 13 Jan 2026261 Harrison Road
Received 29 Jan 202572 Greenhill Road
Received 16 Sept 202515 Carisbrooke Road, Land Adjacent
Received 15 Mar 20233 Ramson Close
Received 11 Dec 2025120 Spencefield Lane
Received 22 Feb 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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