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
32,448 approved · 3,547 refused · 2,381 withdrawn. Most recent record check: 4 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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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.
20 St Anns Square Manchester M2 7HG
Received Not publishedMarylands Xaverian College Lower Park Road Manchester M14 5RB
Received Not publishedManchester Art Gallery Mosley Street Manchester M2 3JL
Received Not published35 Demesne Road Manchester M16 8HJ
Received Not publishedRutherford Building Coupland Street Manchester M13 9GP
Received Not published88 Princess Street Manchester M1 6NG
Received Not publishedRushbrook Primary Academy 101 Shillingford Road Manchester M18 7TN
Received Not published265 - 267 Deansgate Manchester M3 4EW
Received Not publishedMorrisons Wilbraham Road Manchester M21 0UA
Received Not publishedFootpath Outside 1054 Ashton New Road Manchester M11 4PE
Received Not publishedOld Quadrangle Manchester University Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL
Received Not publishedUnits B2, B3 & B4 (Lower Ground Floor) Sevendale House 7 Dale Street Manchester M1 1JA
Received Not published1 - 5 St Ann's Square Manchester M2 7EF
Received Not published1830 Warehouse Science And Industry Museum Liverpool Road Manchester M3 4JP
Received Not publishedUnit G1 1 Portland Street Manchester M1 3BE
Received Not publishedCIS Building Miller Street Manchester M60 0AL
Received Not publishedThe Chapel 43 Upper Brook Street Manchester M13 9JU
Received Not publishedSister Plot C Former Umist Campus Altrincham Street Manchester M1 7JA
Received Not publishedCity Link Holt Town Manchester M40 7FQ
Received Not publishedJohn Dalton Building All Saints Campus Oxford Road Manchester M15 6BH
Received Not published14-16 St. Ann Street Manchester M2 7LP
Received Not publishedNew Warehouse Science And Industry Museum Liverpool Road Manchester M3 4FP
Received Not publishedHanover Building Hanover Street Manchester M4 4BF
Received Not publishedTOWN HALL, ALBERT SQUARE, MANCHESTER, M2 5DB
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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