Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Leicester City Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Leicester website
4 approved · 2,267 refused · 480 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Dec 2013 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 21 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
186 Welford Road
Received 6 Aug 202420 Knighton Church Road
Received 22 Aug 20252 Cloughton Road
Received 25 Feb 20251-3 Hydra Walk, Housing Office
Received 27 May 202192 Corporation Road,
Received 9 Aug 202320-24 Market Street
Received 25 Feb 2025250 Sandhills Avenue
Received 1 Nov 20222 Newmarket Street
Received 24 Jul 202612 Cross Road
Received 15 Apr 2021121 Barkby Road
Received 5 Dec 202317 Balmoral Close
Received 8 Jun 202643 Overton Road
Received 30 Aug 2023337 Milligan Road
Received 16 Jun 2022162 Kedleston Road
Received 12 Apr 20214 June Avenue
Received 21 Oct 2022272 Wigston Lane
Received 7 Jul 202665 Orton Road
Received 20 Oct 202560 Highbury Road
Received 2 Feb 202213 Watson Road
Received 25 Nov 202572-88 Cobden Street
Received 31 Jul 202483 to 103 Oxendon Street
Received 10 Nov 202068 Cuffling Drive
Received 23 Jan 202322 Pocklingtons Walk
Received 12 Oct 202013 Jellicoe Road
Received 24 Mar 2026Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsArea alerts send a daily or weekly email with new applications and decisions near a postcode, filtered by project type. £29 a month, up to 3 areas. Records are limited to the councils we collect.
Set up an area alertStart 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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage