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
30,765 approved · 3,387 refused · 2,257 withdrawn. Most recent record check: 2 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
39 Nicolas Road Manchester M21 9LG
Received Not publishedFromer Boddingtons Brewery Site Dutton Street Manchester M3 1LE
Received Not publishedVictoria Railway Station Long Millgate Manchester M3 1WY
Received Not published19 Sandhurst Avenue Manchester M20 1ED
Received Not publishedWilliam Kay House 327- 333 Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PG
Received Not publishedFormer Bauer Millett Site Albion Street Manchester
Received Not published77 Oatlands Road Manchester M22 1AH
Received Not published1 Minorca Avenue Manchester M11 4RZ
Received Not published2A Beech Road Manchester M21 8BQ
Received Not published66 Jersey Street Manchester M4 6JW
Received Not published11 Nicolas Road Manchester M21 9LG
Received Not publishedManchester Marble Tilson Road Manchester M23 9GF
Received Not publishedSite Of The Temporary Block 29 At The Christie Hospital Wilmslow Road Manchester M20 4BX
Received Not published125 College Road Manchester M16 0AA
Received Not publishedFallowfield Shopping Centre Birchfields Road Manchester M14 6FS
Received Not publishedHammerstone Road Depot Hammerstone Road Manchester M18 8EQ
Received Not publishedWaterhouse Gardens (former Boddingston Brewery Site) Dutton Street Manchester M3 1LE
Received Not publishedFaraday Building Sackville Street Manchester
Received Not published515 Wilbraham Road Manchester M21 0UF
Received Not publishedVictoria Mill 10 Lower Vickers Street Manchester M40 7LH
Received Not published8 Fairfax Avenue Manchester M20 6AJ
Received Not published8 Fairfax Avenue Manchester M20 6AJ
Received Not publishedThe Hive 47 - 51 Lever Street Manchester M1 1FN
Received Not publishedManchester College Wythenshawe Campus Brownley Road Manchester M22 9UH
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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