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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.
4,666 approved · 377 refused · 102 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Jan 2006 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 16 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
30 Broad Street Nottingham NG1 3AN
Received 29 Oct 202571 Ruddington Lane Nottingham Nottingham City NG11 7BG
Received 29 Oct 202520 Lincoln Street Old Basford Nottingham Nottingham City NG6 0FX
Received 29 Oct 2025Nottingham Trent University, Chaucer Building Chaucer Street Nottingham Nottingham City NG1 5LT
Received 29 Oct 20259 Clarendon Street Nottingham Nottingham City NG1 5HR
Received 29 Oct 202523 Bradbourne Avenue Nottingham Nottingham City NG11 7BL
Received 29 Oct 202517 Regent Street City Centre Nottingham Nottingham City NG1 5BS
Received 30 Oct 202520 St Stephens Road Nottingham Nottingham City NG2 4JN
Received 30 Oct 2025Northern Part Of Former British Gas Works Site Radford Road Nottingham
Received 30 Oct 202538 Shakespeare Street Nottingham Nottingham City NG1 4FQ
Received 30 Oct 2025352 Sneinton Dale Nottingham Nottingham City NG3 7ED
Received 30 Oct 2025140 Unit 7 Vernon Road Nottingham Nottingham City NG6 0AD
Received 30 Oct 202561 Loughborough Avenue Nottingham Nottingham City NG2 4LN
Received 30 Oct 2025350 Meadow Lane Nottingham Nottingham City NG2 3GL
Received 30 Oct 202535 Jesse Boot Avenue Nottingham Nottingham City NG7 2RU
Received 30 Oct 202538 Henley Rise Nottingham Nottingham City NG5 1FR
Received 30 Oct 20252 Elmdale Gardens Nottingham Nottingham City NG8 3ED
Received 30 Oct 202556 Russell Avenue Nottingham NG8 2BN
Received 30 Oct 2025Nottingham Trent University, Student Accommodation Sandby Hall Hampden Street Nottingham Nottingham City NG1 4FW
Received 30 Oct 2025Brendon Lawrence Sports Hall 35 Hungerhill Road Nottingham NG3 4NB
Received 24 Oct 2025289 Wigman Road Nottingham NG8 4AJ
Received 3 Nov 2025Site Of Warehouse Abbeyfield Road Nottingham
Received 3 Nov 20253 Brookside Avenue Nottingham Nottingham City NG8 2RD
Received 3 Nov 2025224 Mansfield Road Nottingham Nottingham City NG5 2BU
Received 3 Nov 2025Records 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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