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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.
4 approved · 2,076 refused · 397 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Dec 2013 to 14 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 19 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
105 Loughborough Road
Received 20 Jul 202125 Parkstone Road
Received 1 Sept 2022100 Ashleigh Road
Received 16 Dec 202260 St Andrews Road
Received 20 Nov 202564 Shanklin Drive
Received 1 Feb 202266 Winchester Avenue
Received 30 Mar 2026255 East Park Road
Received 10 Jun 2025Glenfield Road, New College Leicester
Received 25 Aug 202127 Pine Tree Avenue
Received 22 Aug 2022Jubilee Square
Received 14 Jul 2021275 Harrison Road
Received 2 May 202515 Wentworth Road
Received 7 Jun 20222 Westhill Road
Received 20 Apr 2021University Road, University Of Leicester
Received 6 May 2026125 Kitchener Road
Received 16 Jul 202139 Kinross Avenue
Received 8 Feb 202346 Knighton Drive
Received 30 Mar 20264 Grantham Road
Received 15 Aug 20234 Muston Gardens
Received 18 Mar 202666 Romway Road
Received 2 Nov 202016 Bathurst Road
Received 5 Dec 202350 Wycombe Road
Received 18 Jan 202136 Dukes Drive
Received 4 Nov 2021294 Loughborough Road
Received 5 Jul 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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