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.
4,458 approved · 426 refused · 275 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Jan 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Phase 5, Seaton Neighbourhood Plymouth
Received 23 May 2022Market Hall Car Park Duke Street Plymouth PL1 4EF
Received 23 May 2022Devonport Dockyard Saltash Road Keyham Plymouth PL1 4SG
Received 23 May 2022M B R Heat Systems, Smallack Drive Plymouth PL6 5EB
Received 23 May 20222 Hexton Hill Road Plymouth PL9 9RD
Received 24 May 202211 St Erth Road Plymouth PL2 3SW
Received 24 May 2022Beauchamp Centre, Mount Gould Hospital Mount Gould Road Plymouth PL4 7QD
Received 24 May 2022Devonport Dockyard Building S030 Saltash Road Plymouth PL1 4SG
Received 24 May 2022Basement Flat, 72 Durnford Street Plymouth PL1 3QW
Received 24 May 2022Devonport Dockyard Building S151 Saltash Road Plymouth PL1 4SG
Received 24 May 2022Devonport Dockyard Building M070 Saltash Road Plymouth PL1 4SG
Received 24 May 202226 Bath Street Plymouth PL1 3LT
Received 24 May 2022Devonport Dockyard Building N177 Saltash Road Plymouth PL1 4SG
Received 24 May 2022Douglass House Douglass Road Plymouth PL3 6NP
Received 24 May 2022Hyde Park School Lodge Hyde Park Road Plymouth PL3 4RH
Received 24 May 20222 South Down Road Plymouth PL2 3HW
Received 24 May 202220 Hill Top Crest Plymouth PL5 2DZ
Received 25 May 2022166 Sheridan Road Plymouth PL5 3HD
Received 25 May 2022Land At Tamerton Foliot Road Plymouth PL6 5DR
Received 25 May 202263 Lower Compton Road Plymouth PL3 5DN
Received 25 May 202245 Rosslyn Park Road Plymouth PL3 4LL
Received 24 May 2022Melville Building Royal William Yard Plymouth PL1 3RP
Received 25 May 2022First Floor Flat, 258 Citadel Road Plymouth PL1 2PY
Received 24 May 2022Fursdon House, Blunts Lane Plymouth PL6 8BE
Received 25 May 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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