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 Manchester City Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Manchester website
24,219 approved · 2,669 refused · 1,735 withdrawn. Most recent record check: 25 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
23 Burton Road Manchester M20 3GB
Received Not publishedLand Junction Of Lathbury Road And Carisbrook Street Manchester
Received Not publishedManchester Art Gallery Mosley Street Manchester M2 3JL
Received Not publishedSt James Buildings 79 Oxford Street Manchester M1 6FQ
Received Not publishedCommerce House 54 Derby Street Manchester M8 8HF
Received Not publishedStation Building Museum Of Science And Industry Liverpool Road Manchester M3 4JP
Received Not publishedUpper Campfield Market Hall Liverpool Road Manchester
Received Not publishedSunlight House Quay Street Manchester M3 3JZ
Received Not publishedPart Floors 3 And 4 8-16 Newton Street M1 2AN
Received Not publishedLand Within The Colonnade Of The Town Hall Extension Adjacent Mount Street Manchester City Centre
Received Not publishedPlot 10B First Street Manchester M15 4RF
Received Not published466 - 468 Moss Lane East Manchester M14 4PJ
Received Not published10 Bredbury Road Manchester M14 7AG
Received Not publishedLand Off Cringle Road Manchester
Received Not publishedFormer Mather & Platt Foundry Grimshaw Lane Manchester M40 2BA
Received Not publishedUnit A 48 Derby Street Manchester M8 8HN
Received Not published4 Thirsfield Drive Manchester M11 4BF
Received Not publishedFormer Debenhams 109 - 127 Market Street Manchester M60 1TA
Received Not publishedRoyal Northern College Of Music 124 Oxford Road Manchester M13 9RD
Received Not published530 Wilbraham Road Manchester M21 9LD
Received Not publishedNorth Manchester General Hospital Delaunays Road Manchester M8 5RB
Received Not publishedLand Bounded By Dantzic Street, Dalton Street And The Railway Line Known As Plots NT02, NT03 And NT04 Manchester
Received Not published28 Belhaven Road Manchester M8 4NR
Received Not publishedPellowe House Francis Road Manchester M20 4XP
Received Not publishedRecords are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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.
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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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