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
24,529 approved · 2,707 refused · 1,759 withdrawn. Most recent record check: 25 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
276 Yew Tree Road Manchester M14 6BT
Received Not publishedChorlton District Library Manchester Road Chorlton Manchester M21 9PN
Received Not publishedLand At Deansgate South Manchester M3 4LB
Received Not published35 King Street Manchester M2 7AT
Received Not published12 Weston Grove Manchester M22 4NX
Received Not published393 Dickenson Road Manchester M13 0WG
Received Not publishedAldi 580 Altrincham Road Manchester M23 9SR
Received Not publishedLand Off Louisa Street Manchester
Received Not published15 Oak Bank Avenue Manchester M9 4EX
Received Not published67 Cheetham Hill Road Manchester M4 4ES
Received Not published101 Slack Road Manchester M9 8AZ
Received Not publishedFormer Boddingtons Brewery Site Dutton Street Manchester M3 1LE
Received Not published50 Bury New Road Manchester M8 8EL
Received Not published16 Weardale Road Manchester M9 8WR
Received Not published21 Goodman Street Manchester M9 4FD
Received Not published44 Horncastle Road Manchester M40 5QA
Received Not published9 Didsbury Park Manchester M20 5LH
Received Not published70 Great Bridgewater Street Manchester M1 5ES
Received Not published25 Hatherley Road Manchester M20 4RN
Received Not publishedFormer Mather & Platt Foundry Grimshaw Lane Manchester M40 2BA
Received Not publishedUpper And Lower Campfield Market Halls Liverpool Road Manchester M3 3NG
Received Not publishedBuilding 3A Circle Square Oxford Road Manchester M60 7HB
Received Not publishedSt Gabriels Hall 1 Oxford Place Manchester M14 5RP
Received Not publishedNorth Manchester General Hospital Delaunays Road Manchester M8 5RB
Received Not publishedRecords 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.
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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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