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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
32,913 approved · 3,597 refused · 2,415 withdrawn. Most recent record check: 5 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
New Century Hall 34 Hanover Street Manchester M4 4AH
Received Not published6 Bradshaw Avenue Manchester M20 3FF
Received Not publishedLand Between Rochdale Road And Tudor Avenue Blackley Park Road Manchester M9 4DQ
Received Not publishedLand at the Former Burnage Cricket Club Mauldeth Road Manchester
Received Not publishedSignature Aviation - MAN Business Aviation Centre Fairey's Way Hangar 7 Manchester M90 5NE
Received Not published4 Market Street Manchester M1 1PT
Received Not publishedLand At The West Side Of The Junction Of Grey Mare Lane And Ashton New Road Manchester M11 3DG
Received Not publishedShamrock Inn 17 - 21 Bengal Street Manchester M4 6AQ
Received Not publishedJessiefield Spath Road Manchester M20 2TZ
Received Not publishedThe Point 173 Cheetham Hill Road Manchester M8 8LG
Received Not published43 Dalston Drive Manchester M20 5LQ
Received Not published17 Brooklands Road Manchester M8 4JH
Received Not published27 Meadow Bank Manchester M21 8EF
Received Not published18 Clover Croft Manchester M33 3PU
Received Not publishedPeter House Oxford Street Manchester M1 5AN
Received Not publishedVictoria Point 44 Hathersage Road Manchester M13 0FT
Received Not publishedLand to the North of Moseley Road Manchester
Received Not published31 Kingswood Road Manchester M14 6RZ
Received Not published59 Cross Street Manchester M2 4JW
Received Not publishedLand Adjacent To St Marks Lane Robin Hood Street Manchester M8 9GH
Received Not published148 Moston Lane Manchester M9 4HU
Received Not publishedFlat 2 Beech Mews Beech Road Manchester M21 9EQ
Received Not published116 Brantingham Road Manchester M21 0TU
Received Not publishedCar Park Adjacent 25 To 27 Rochdale Road Manchester M4 4HT
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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