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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Manchester City Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
20,308 approved · 2,292 refused · 1,452 withdrawn. Most recent record check: 20 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
We haven’t verified direct planning guidance links for this authority yet. Use its official website in Council sources.
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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Council-wide HMO scope — Manchester City Council · checked 14 Sept 2026 · Outline geometry: Open Government Licence v3.0.
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.
Pavement Outside Co-Op Corporation Street Manchester M4 2BS
Received Not publishedPavement Outside The Co- Op Corporation Street Manchester M4 4BE
Received Not publishedOutside 6 John Dalton Street Manchester M2 6JP
Received Not publishedPavement Outside 6 John Dalton Street Manchester M2 6JP
Received Not publishedPavement Outside John Dalton Building Oxford Road Manchester M1 7ED
Received Not publishedPavement Outside John Dalton Building Oxford Road Manchester M1 7ED
Received Not publishedPavement Outside 4-8 Mosley Street Manchester
Received Not publishedPavement Outside 4-8 Mosley Street Manchester
Received Not published15 Oakleigh Avenue Manchester M19 2WP
Received Not published38 Whitelow Road Manchester M21 9HR
Received Not published275B Barlow Moor Road Manchester M21 7GH
Received Not published39 Houghend Avenue Manchester M21 7SF
Received Not published46 Northumberland Way Manchester M22 4UG
Received Not published180 Wilbraham Road Manchester M14 7EN
Received Not publishedOld Saint Marys Hospital Oxford Road Manchester M13 9WL
Received Not published26 The Birtles Manchester M22 5RF
Received Not published56 Bank House Road Manchester M9 8LT
Received Not published79 Mosley Street Manchester M2 5PD
Received Not published15 Totnes Road Manchester M21 8XF
Received Not publishedBroad Oak Works Harper Road Manchester M22 4RX
Received Not published260 Errwood Road Manchester M19 1HY
Received Not publishedUnits 1-3 (Ground Floor) Smiths Yard 43 Blossom Street Manchester M4 6AJ
Received Not publishedGreater Manchester Police Soch Building Lawton Street Manchester M11 2NS
Received Not published311-313 Revolution Wilmslow Road Manchester M14 6NW
Received Not publishedRecords 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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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 Manchester 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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