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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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Nottingham City Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
4,125 approved · 347 refused · 87 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Jan 2006 to 5 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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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Nottingham City Council — Article4 Direction Areas: HMO · checked 14 Sept 2026 · Open Government Licence v3.0. Nottingham City Council. Contains OS data © Crown copyright [and database right] [year].
Nottingham City Council — Article4 Direction Areas: Historic Environment · checked 14 Sept 2026 · Open Government Licence v3.0. Nottingham City Council. Contains OS data © Crown copyright [and database right] [year].
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.
Cedars Park The Cedars Nottingham Nottingham City NG5 3FP
Received 12 Jan 202413 Marchwood Close Nottingham Nottingham City NG8 1PJ
Received 12 Jan 202414 Cavendish Crescent North Nottingham Nottingham City NG7 1BA
Received 15 Jan 202426 Bells Lane Nottingham Nottingham City NG8 6ET
Received 15 Jan 20245 Thorndale Road Nottingham Nottingham City NG6 0LW
Received 15 Jan 202459 Cliff Road Nottingham Nottingham City NG1 1GT
Received 15 Jan 20244 Castle Boulevard Nottingham Nottingham City NG7 1FB
Received 15 Jan 202425 Teesdale Road Nottingham NG5 1DA
Received 15 Jan 2024664 Nuthall Road Nottingham Nottingham City NG8 6AQ
Received 15 Jan 2024664 Nuthall Road Nottingham Nottingham City NG8 6AQ
Received 15 Jan 2024The Lookout 4 Bull Close Road Nottingham
Received 15 Jan 202426 Cragdale Road Nottingham NG5 3HX
Received 3 Jan 2024Charnwood House Albert Road Mapperley Nottingham Nottingham City NG3 4JD
Received 15 Jan 20246 Coombe Close Nottingham Nottingham City NG8 1BP
Received 15 Jan 20248 Torkard Drive Nottingham Nottingham City NG5 9HR
Received 16 Jan 20242 Lees Hill Street Nottingham Nottingham City NG2 4JW
Received 16 Jan 202437 Flat 4 Lenton Road Nottingham Nottingham City NG7 1DU
Received 16 Jan 20242 Welstead Avenue Nottingham NG8 5NW
Received 15 Jan 2024Land Rear Of Players Court And Radford House Norton Street Nottingham
Received 17 Jan 2024134 Allington Avenue Nottingham Nottingham City NG7 1JX
Received 17 Jan 202414 Vivian Avenue Nottingham Nottingham City NG5 1AF
Received 17 Jan 202489 Broxtowe Lane Nottingham NG8 5NN
Received 17 Jan 202431 Groveside Crescent Nottingham Nottingham City NG11 8NT
Received 17 Jan 2024123, 127 & 131 Bulwell Lane Nottingham NG6 0BS
Received 17 Jan 2024Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart 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 Nottingham 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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