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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4 approved · 2,198 refused · 454 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Dec 2013 to 14 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 20 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
19 Smith Dorrien Road
Received 2 Sept 202056 Dumbleton Avenue
Received 11 Aug 202187 Rowsley Street
Received 28 Jan 202626 Shanklin Drive
Received 28 Aug 2026188 Welford Road
Received 15 Jul 202411 Carisbrooke Gardens
Received 22 Jun 202656 Dumbleton Avenue
Received 28 Sept 202188 Bedford Street North
Received 5 Nov 202010 Saville Street
Received 21 Aug 202320 Yorkshire Road
Received 3 Apr 202417 Gervas Road
Received 15 Jan 2024239 Canon Street
Received 14 Feb 202466 Anstey Lane
Received 4 Apr 2023St Martin's, St Martin's Cathedral Church
Received 20 Dec 2022272 Thurncourt Road
Received 26 May 2022Bewcastle Grove, Mowmacre Playing Fields
Received 24 Jul 2025508 Welford Road
Received 19 Jun 2023Car park and land rear of Dupont Gardens/Liberty Road/Tatlow Road
Received 6 Jul 202616-16A High Street
Received 12 Apr 2021Galsworthy Court, Winstanley Community Centre
Received 18 Aug 20238 Lutterworth Road
Received 8 Dec 202063 Oakside Crescent
Received 14 Apr 202658 Quorn Road
Received 6 Jun 202515 Threadgold Close
Received 9 Jun 2021Records 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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