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.
4,567 approved · 438 refused · 284 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7 Montacute Avenue Plymouth PL5 3PN
Received 4 Oct 2022118 Cremyll Street Plymouth PL1 3RB
Received 4 Oct 2022Pier Masters Office Phoenix Wharf Madeira Road Plymouth PL1 2NX
Received 4 Oct 2022365 Crownhill Road Plymouth PL5 2LL
Received 4 Oct 2022Home Park Football Ground Outland Road Plymouth PL2 3DQ
Received 4 Oct 202244 Flamsteed Crescent Plymouth PL5 2AX
Received 4 Oct 20221 - 3 Merafield Road Plymouth PL7 1TL
Received 4 Oct 20221 - 3 Merafield Road Plymouth PL7 1TL
Received 4 Oct 2022Westcross, Glen Road Mannamead Plymouth PL3 5AP
Received 4 Oct 2022Coombe House The Quay Plymouth PL9 7NE
Received 5 Oct 202227 Priory Mill Plymouth PL7 1WR
Received 5 Oct 20226 Coombe Park Lane Plymouth PL5 2LH
Received 5 Oct 2022129 Staddiscombe Road Plymouth PL9 9LT
Received 6 Oct 2022Seaton Park House Land Off William Prance Road Derriford Plymouth
Received 6 Oct 2022The Former GWR Yealmpton Branch Railway Line West Of Colesdown Hill Plymouth
Received 6 Oct 2022Plymstock Quarry, The Ride Plymstock Plymouth
Received 6 Oct 2022First Floor Flat, 11 Deptford Place Plymouth PL4 8JJ
Received 6 Oct 2022Derriford Hospital Derriford Road Plymouth PL6 8DH
Received 6 Oct 2022Car Park RN3, Devonport Royal Dockyard Wolseley Road Plymouth PL2 2EA
Received 6 Oct 20228 Wellington Street Stoke Plymouth PL1 5RT
Received 7 Oct 202236 Marlborough Street Plymouth PL1 4AH
Received 6 Oct 2022Pier Masters Office, Phoenix Wharf Madeira Road Plymouth PL1 2NX
Received 7 Oct 2022Talbot Gardens Plymouth PL5 1BU
Received 7 Oct 2022Seaton Court 2 William Prance Road Plymouth PL6 5WS
Received 6 Oct 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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