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.
6,256 approved · 567 refused · 427 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Apr 2020 to 15 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 17 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
163 Renown Street Plymouth PL2 2DT
Received 2 Jun 202526 Morshead Road Plymouth PL6 5AH
Received 2 Jun 2025St Dunstans Abbey Chapel And Maintenance Building Craigie Drive The Millfields PL1 3JL
Received 2 Jun 202568 Craven Avenue Plymouth PL4 8SW
Received 2 Jun 2025Norbury Court, 10 Craigie Drive Plymouth PL1 3LL
Received 2 Jun 202555 Slatelands Close Plymouth PL7 1XJ
Received 3 Jun 202559 Old Laira Road Plymouth PL3 6BL
Received 3 Jun 202568 Windermere Crescent Plymouth PL6 5HX
Received 3 Jun 202518 Braemar Close Plymouth PL7 2FA
Received 3 Jun 202519 Hazel Grove Plymouth PL9 8DW
Received 4 Jun 202561 Hyde Park Road Plymouth PL3 4JN
Received 4 Jun 2025107 Bridwell Road Plymouth PL5 1AE
Received 4 Jun 202531 Coltness Road Plymouth PL9 8HA
Received 4 Jun 202511 Radford Road Plymouth PL1 3BY
Received 4 Jun 2025Post Box 136M, Rnad Bullpoint Kinterbury Road Plymouth PL5 1ER
Received 5 Jun 2025Chelson Meadow Waste Reception Centre The Ride Plymouth PL9 7JT
Received 5 Jun 2025118 Green Park Road Plymouth PL9 9LJ
Received 6 Jun 202544 Rockingham Road Plymouth PL3 5BW
Received 6 Jun 202540 Venn Grove Plymouth PL3 5PH
Received 6 Jun 202516 - 20 North Street Plymouth PL4 8DL
Received 6 Jun 2025Derriford Hospital Derriford Road Plymouth PL6 8DH
Received 9 Jun 20255 Lockington Avenue Plymouth PL3 5QR
Received 9 Jun 20253 Bell Close Plymouth PL7 4JH
Received 9 Jun 2025Flat 1, 1 Craigie Drive Plymouth PL1 3JB
Received 9 Jun 2025Records 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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