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
33,859 approved · 3,677 refused · 2,479 withdrawn. Most recent record check: 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
74 Ashley Lane Manchester M9 4NU
Received Not publishedPiccadilly Gardens Manchester M1 1LS
Received Not publishedWindsor House Mauldeth Road West Manchester M21 7TH
Received Not published274 Manley Road Manchester M21 0RF
Received Not published29 Hibbert Street Manchester M14 5NT
Received Not publishedFormer Boddingtons Brewery Site Dutton Street Manchester M3 1LE
Received Not publishedMansart Court 10 Olive Shapley Avenue Manchester M20 6QB
Received Not published18 Carlton Road Manchester M16 8BB
Received Not published89 Old Lansdowne Road Manchester M20 2NZ
Received Not publishedFormer Rusholme Bus Depot 263 Wilmslow Road Manchester M14 5LJ
Received Not published111 Mauldeth Road Manchester M14 6SR
Received Not publishedWythenshawe Labs Main Building Site Security Building & Subsidiary Buildings Timpson Road Manchester M23 9TJ
Received Not publishedWylex Works Sharston Road Manchester M22 4RA
Received Not publishedFlat 1 6 Catesby Road Manchester M16 7ET
Received Not published27 Blackburn Gardens Manchester M20 3YH
Received Not published58 Clinton Avenue Manchester M14 7LG
Received Not published18 Kenyon Lane Manchester M40 9JQ
Received Not publishedNew Century Hall 34 Hanover Street Manchester M4 4AH
Received Not published4 Angel Square Corporation Street Manchester M4 4DU
Received Not published3 Alston Gardens Manchester M19 1DW
Received Not published1 St James's Square Manchester M2 6DN
Received Not published9 Pine Road Manchester M20 6UY
Received Not publishedSummerville 65 Daisy Bank Road Manchester
Received Not publishedSt James Safe Deposit Company Ltd 77 Oxford Street Manchester M1 6EG
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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