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.
4,570 approved · 438 refused · 284 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 Maristow Close Plymouth PL6 5BR
Received 7 Oct 2022Peregrine Road Plymouth
Received 7 Oct 2022Longlands, Longlands Road Plymouth PL9 7RW
Received 7 Oct 202210 New George Street Plymouth PL1 1RL
Received 7 Oct 202234 - 36 Union Street Plymouth PL1 2EY
Received 7 Oct 2022161 Church Way Plymouth PL5 1AJ
Received 10 Oct 2022Bostons Boat Yard Baylys Road Plymouth PL9 7NQ
Received 10 Oct 20221 Park Street Plymouth PL3 4BL
Received 10 Oct 202239 William Prance Road Plymouth PL6 5WR
Received 10 Oct 202229 Chatsworth Gardens Plymouth PL5 2JU
Received 10 Oct 2022159 Beverston Way Plymouth PL6 7EG
Received 10 Oct 2022114 Devonport Road Plymouth PL1 5RG
Received 11 Oct 2022108 Weston Park Road Plymouth PL3 4NP
Received 11 Oct 202230 Moorland Drive Plymouth PL7 2BZ
Received 11 Oct 202210 Shute Park Road Plymouth PL9 8RE
Received 11 Oct 202231 Colston Close Plymouth PL6 6AY
Received 11 Oct 202231 Colston Close Plymouth PL6 6AY
Received 11 Oct 20224 Alfred Street Plymouth PL1 2RP
Received 11 Oct 2022Bostons Boat Yard Baylys Road Plymouth PL9 7NQ
Received 11 Oct 202216 Stillman Court Stillman Street Plymouth PL4 0DU
Received 12 Oct 202212A How Street Plymouth PL4 0DB
Received 12 Oct 202219 Lyndhurst Road Plymouth PL2 3DJ
Received 12 Oct 202230 Thorn Park Plymouth PL3 4TE
Received 12 Oct 2022Land Off Linketty Lane Marshall Road Plymouth PL7 1YB
Received 12 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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