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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.
7,261 approved · 639 refused · 530 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 10 Jun 2019 to 15 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 19 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
23 Lyndrick Road Plymouth PL3 5TA
Received 16 Mar 2026Brickfields Sports Centre 80 Madden Road Plymouth PL1 4NE
Received 16 Mar 202653 Headland Park Plymouth PL4 8HS
Received 16 Mar 2026North Prospect Phase 3, Wordsworth Road/Wordsworth Crescent Plymouth PL2 2NE
Received 16 Mar 202663 Hooe Road Plymouth PL9 9QR
Received 17 Mar 202644 Underlane Plymstock Plymouth PL9 9JZ
Received 17 Mar 202626 William Prance Road Plymouth PL6 5WR
Received 17 Mar 2026Flat 2, 37 Clifton Place Plymouth PL4 8HX
Received 17 Mar 2026Thornbury Road Plymouth PL6 7PP
Received 17 Mar 20263 Hurrabrook Close Plymouth PL6 8SJ
Received 18 Mar 2026Land To The West Of Encombe Street, North Of Billacombe Road. Plymouth
Received 17 Mar 202664 Mount Batten Way Plymouth PL9 9EB
Received 18 Mar 2026Commercial Wharf, Madeira Road Plymouth PL1 2NX
Received 18 Mar 20264 Woodlands End Plymouth PL6 7RE
Received 18 Mar 2026Millbay Marina Village, Custom House Lane Plymouth PL1 3TG
Received 18 Mar 20262 Caldicot Gardens Plymouth PL6 7EP
Received 18 Mar 20264 Dunstone Avenue Plymouth PL9 8RH
Received 18 Mar 202628 Clittaford Road Plymouth PL6 6DT
Received 19 Mar 2026Raglan Court, Damerel Close Plymouth PL1 4JE
Received 19 Mar 20261 Princess Street Ope Plymouth PL1 2EJ
Received 19 Mar 2026Drake Mill Business Park, Estover Road Plymouth PL6 7PS
Received 19 Mar 202676 Durnford Street Plymouth PL1 3QW
Received 19 Mar 202614 Springfield Road Plymouth PL9 8ED
Received 19 Mar 2026Saltram, Merafield Road Plymouth PL7 1UH
Received 19 Mar 2026Records 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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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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