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.
4,536 approved · 435 refused · 282 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Jan 2021 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
122 Kenley Gardens Plymouth PL5 2RF
Received 22 Jul 202258 Trelawney Road Peverell Plymouth PL3 4JX
Received 22 Jul 202222 Millbay Road Plymouth PL1 3EG
Received 22 Jul 202231 Phoenix Street Plymouth PL1 3DN
Received 22 Jul 202298 Church Road Plymstock Plymouth PL9 9BG
Received 24 Jul 202298 Church Road Plymstock Plymouth PL9 9BG
Received 24 Jul 202219 Forget Me Not Lane Plymouth PL6 7FA
Received 24 Jul 202233 Riverside Walk Plymouth PL5 4AQ
Received 24 Jul 202215 Pomphlett Road Plymouth PL9 7BH
Received 25 Jul 202215 Pomphlett Road Plymouth PL9 7BH
Received 25 Jul 202246 Torridge Road Plymouth PL7 2DQ
Received 25 Jul 202250 Underlane Plymstock Plymouth PL9 9JZ
Received 25 Jul 202259 Highclere Gardens Plymouth PL6 7EB
Received 25 Jul 2022121 Eggbuckland Road Plymouth PL3 5JS
Received 26 Jul 2022Plympton St Marys Church Of England Infant School Market Road Plymouth PL7 1QW
Received 26 Jul 202218 Cornwood Road Plymouth PL7 1AL
Received 26 Jul 202236 Medway Place Plymouth PL3 6HB
Received 26 Jul 202276 - 78 Royal Parade Plymouth PL1 1EW
Received 25 Jul 2022195 Plymstock Road Plymouth PL9 7LW
Received 26 Jul 2022Bath Street Plymouth PL1 3LT
Received 25 Jul 202243 The Mead Plymouth PL7 4HT
Received 27 Jul 2022Marlborough House Granby Way Plymouth PL1 4HG
Received 27 Jul 2022Boatyard, Billacombe Road Plymouth PL9 7HP
Received 27 Jul 2022Boatyard, Billacombe Road Plymouth PL9 7HP
Received 27 Jul 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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