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.
6,688 approved · 593 refused · 459 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 18 Nov 2019 to 15 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 18 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
29 Roborough Avenue Plymouth PL6 6AQ
Received 5 Nov 2025Arcadia Road Plymouth PL9 8EG
Received 6 Nov 202571 Stott Close Plymouth PL3 6HA
Received 6 Nov 202553 Emma Place Plymouth PL1 3QU
Received 6 Nov 2025Poltair, Seymour Road Mannamead Plymouth PL3 5AR
Received 7 Nov 202567 Citadel Road Plymouth PL1 3AX
Received 7 Nov 202569 Citadel Road Plymouth PL1 3AX
Received 7 Nov 20255 Adelaide Street Stonehouse Plymouth PL1 3JE
Received 7 Nov 2025The Haven, HMS Drake Saltash Road Keyham Plymouth PL2 2DQ
Received 7 Nov 202511 Adelaide Street Stonehouse Plymouth PL1 3JF
Received 7 Nov 202525 Adelaide Street Stonehouse Plymouth PL1 3JG
Received 7 Nov 20257 Radnor Place Plymouth PL4 8DW
Received 7 Nov 202560 Haddington Road Plymouth PL2 1RW
Received 7 Nov 2025Land To The West Of Phase 9, Seaton Neighbourhood (Palmerston Heights) Plymouth
Received 7 Nov 20257 Cornwall Beach Plymouth PL1 4PD
Received 7 Nov 2025Ernesettle Community School Biggin Hill Plymouth PL5 2RB
Received 7 Nov 2025Gloucester Court Gloucester Place Plymouth PL1 5EJ
Received 7 Nov 202561 Hyde Park Road Plymouth PL3 4JN
Received 7 Nov 2025Grassland At Plympton Castle Barbican Road Plymouth
Received 7 Nov 2025The Lord Louis, Glen Road Plympton Plymouth PL7 2DE
Received 10 Nov 20255 Cot Hill Plymouth PL7 1SB
Received 10 Nov 2025Land To The Rear Of Down Road Plymouth PL7 2GN
Received 10 Nov 2025Amenity Spaces At Pentamar Street, Healy Place, Garden Street, Ross Street, And Balfour Terrace Plymouth PL2 1DA
Received 11 Nov 2025Land Adjacent To Pasley Street Lane Plymouth
Received 11 Nov 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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