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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2 approved · 1,907 refused · 352 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
160 Gwendolen Road
Received 20 Jan 20252 Barkbythorpe Road
Received 19 Jul 202168 Braybrooke Road
Received 2 Jun 202510 Bayberry Gardens
Received 12 May 202159 Friar Lane and land adjacent
Received 14 Mar 202218 Market Street
Received 18 Jun 202560 Asquith Boulevard, Sakeena House
Received 8 Aug 202416 Freeman Road North
Received 20 Aug 202471 Princess Road West-Waterloo House, 80 Regent Road-Regent House & Land South of Regent Road between Tigers Way and West Street
Received 8 Nov 202256 Vicarage Lane, Land Adjacent
Received 20 Mar 202312 Cheapside, Second And Third Floors
Received 6 Dec 20222 Seaton Rise
Received 12 Nov 202169-73 Regent Road, Howard House
Received 31 May 202330 Regent Street, C E C O S House
Received 30 Jun 202550 Braunstone Lane East, Biam Yard
Received 20 Oct 202319 Herrick Road
Received 21 Feb 202215 Gleneagles Avenue & land to rear of 13-23 Gleneagles Avenue
Received 6 Sept 2023Site Of Southfield Infant School, Southfields Drive
Received 5 Aug 202517 Rushey Close
Received 28 Jan 2022Orton Square
Received 19 Oct 2021250 Narborough Road
Received 14 May 202126 Shanklin Drive
Received 5 Feb 2024Meadows Way, land off
Received 25 Oct 202340 Melton Avenue
Received 21 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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