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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2 approved · 1,879 refused · 348 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Dec 2013 to 14 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 17 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
68 Cavendish Road
Received 24 Sept 202550 Parkstone Road
Received 23 Jan 202514 Cheltenham Road
Received 23 Aug 20225 Gallowtree Gate
Received 20 Aug 2026200 Hastings Road
Received 25 Nov 2025294 Scraptoft Lane
Received 12 May 20261 Tennis Court Drive
Received 26 Oct 202219-21 Loseby Lane
Received 12 Jul 202233 Limber Crescent
Received 23 Apr 202587 Frisby Road
Received 4 Aug 2026124 Green Lane Road
Received 30 Sept 20241 Shirley Avenue
Received 27 Apr 202614 Wintersdale Road
Received 19 Jul 20212 Bosworth Street & 68 Tudor Road
Received 16 Feb 202670-72A Kerrysdale Avenue
Received 28 Apr 202355 Linden Street, Linden House
Received 11 Jul 202422 Ratcliffe Road
Received 7 Apr 202523-27 Lincoln Street
Received 23 Feb 20232 Stoughton Road, Flat 5, Lyndwood Court
Received 8 Mar 2022347 Catherine Street
Received 6 Jun 202598 Constance Road
Received 8 Feb 2024Woodborough Road, Land at Rear Of 2-4
Received 17 Aug 202618-20 York Road
Received 26 Feb 2024252 Thurncourt Road
Received 17 Oct 2024Records 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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