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.
4,574 approved · 438 refused · 284 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Unit 1, 4 Estover Close Plymouth PL6 7PL
Received 12 Oct 2022Bain Clarkson House, 1 Brunswick Road Plymouth PL4 0NP
Received 12 Oct 202212 Corfe Avenue Plymouth PL3 5SQ
Received 13 Oct 202246 Portland Road Plymouth PL1 4QN
Received 13 Oct 202211 Thetford Gardens Plymouth PL6 5UR
Received 13 Oct 202210 Sawrey Street Plymouth PL1 3LA
Received 13 Oct 202210 Sawrey Street Plymouth PL1 3LA
Received 13 Oct 2022107 Grenville Road Plymouth PL4 9QA
Received 13 Oct 202229 Athenaeum Street Plymouth PL1 2RQ
Received 14 Oct 202229 Athenaeum Street Plymouth PL1 2RQ
Received 14 Oct 20229 Dunstone Road St Budeaux Plymouth PL5 2HJ
Received 14 Oct 202280 Mannamead Road Plymouth PL3 4SY
Received 14 Oct 2022Beauchamp Centre, Mount Gould Hospital Mount Gould Road Plymouth PL4 7QD
Received 14 Oct 20226 Underhill Road Plymouth PL3 4BP
Received 14 Oct 202224 Churchstow Walk Plymouth PL6 8QU
Received 14 Oct 2022The Ferns, Seymour Road Mannamead Plymouth PL3 5AT
Received 14 Oct 2022249 Ham Drive Plymouth PL2 3NG
Received 14 Oct 202220 Ridge Park Road Plymouth PL7 2BG
Received 14 Oct 202210 Admiralty Road St Budeaux Plymouth PL5 1NJ
Received 14 Oct 2022Plymbridge Woods Car Park Plymbridge Rd Plymouth PL7 4SR
Received 17 Oct 202216 Richmond Road Plymouth PL6 5EE
Received 17 Oct 202262 Neath Road Plymouth PL4 8TG
Received 17 Oct 202291 Howard Road Plymouth PL9 7ER
Received 17 Oct 202217 Ladysmith Road Plymouth PL4 7NL
Received 17 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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