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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2 approved · 1,918 refused · 356 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
42-44 Granby Street (First and second floors), 3 Rutland Street
Received 30 Oct 2025169 Evington Road
Received 15 Oct 202530 Rowley Fields Avenue
Received 13 Jul 20213 Uppingham Close; land adjacent to
Received 21 Mar 202299 Holmfield Road
Received 15 Sept 2023University Road
Received 23 May 2022383 Fosse Road South
Received 26 Mar 2025149 Lutterworth Road
Received 1 Sept 202618 Huntingdon Road
Received 4 Dec 202372 Eastwood Road
Received 3 Apr 202391B-91C Lansdowne Road
Received 6 Jul 2021224 St Saviours Road
Received 25 Mar 202126 Southernhay Road
Received 11 Jun 202438 Colchester Road
Received 11 Jun 20219 Byway Road
Received 24 Oct 2024Gipsy Lane, Towers Hospital
Received 28 May 202135 Purley Road
Received 14 Aug 2023153 Narborough Road, Service Station
Received 16 Jul 202518 Colchester Road
Received 1 Aug 202329 St Albans Road, Lion House
Received 6 Nov 2024316 Victoria Road East
Received 16 Jun 2025145 Halifax Drive
Received 8 Jul 202512 Evington Parks Road
Received 20 Jul 2026277-287 Aikman Avenue
Received 8 Mar 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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