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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Plymouth City Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
4,305 approved · 412 refused · 261 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 18 Mar 2021 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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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.
10 Greenwood Park Road Plymouth PL7 2WE
Received 3 Mar 20229 The Drive Plymouth PL3 5SU
Received 4 Mar 202272 Furzehill Road Plymouth PL4 7LB
Received 4 Mar 2022113 Pemros Road Plymouth PL5 1LU
Received 4 Mar 2022Home Park Football Ground Outland Road Plymouth PL2 3DQ
Received 4 Mar 2022Cann House Tamerton Foliot Road Plymouth PL5 4LE
Received 4 Mar 20221 Nelson Gardens Plymouth PL1 5RH
Received 4 Mar 202226 Lopwell Close Plymouth PL6 5BP
Received 4 Mar 20222 Yarrow Mead Plymouth PL9 8BQ
Received 7 Mar 2022Second Floor, Flat 3, 23 Walker Terrace Plymouth PL1 3BN
Received 7 Mar 202245 Furneaux Road Plymouth PL2 3EX
Received 7 Mar 202212 Rockingham Road Plymouth PL3 5BN
Received 7 Mar 20223 Molesworth Road Plympton Plymouth PL7 4NT
Received 7 Mar 202221 George Avenue Plymouth PL7 2DB
Received 7 Mar 202231 Moor Lane Plymouth PL5 1UA
Received 7 Mar 2022Grassed Road Verge On South Side Of Wolseley Road Between Railway Line And St Budeaux District Shopping Centre Plymouth PL5 1RQ
Received 7 Mar 202280 Wembury Road Plymouth PL9 8HF
Received 4 Mar 202220 The Barbican Plymouth PL1 2LS
Received 7 Mar 202228 Birkbeck Close Plymouth PL7 4BW
Received 7 Mar 2022123 Springfield Road Plymouth PL9 8PU
Received 7 Mar 20226 Pilgrim Close Plymouth PL2 3HR
Received 7 Mar 202280 Compton Avenue Plymouth PL3 5DD
Received 7 Mar 2022Land At Poole Park Road, Savage Road, Roberts Road & Roope Close
Received 7 Mar 202213 Merrivale Road Beacon Park Plymouth PL2 2QG
Received 7 Mar 2022Records 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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Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Plymouth 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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