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.
9,438 approved · 810 refused · 676 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 26 Sept 2017 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 21 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
127 Milehouse Road Plymouth PL3 4AG
Received 21 Sept 2026Land South Of St Matthew's Church Of England Primary School And Nursery Academy 1 Peregrine Road Plymouth
Received 21 Sept 202632 Hill Park Crescent Plymouth PL4 8JP
Received 21 Sept 202688 South View Terrace Plymouth PL4 9DH
Received 18 Sept 20267 Radford Park Road Plymouth PL9 9DG
Received 21 Sept 2026Civic Centre, Armada Way Plymouth PL1 2AA
Received 21 Sept 202688 Uxbridge Drive Plymouth PL5 2SQ
Received 21 Sept 20268 Molyneaux Place Plymouth PL1 4RE
Received 22 Sept 202610 Longbrook Street Plymouth PL7 1NJ
Received 22 Sept 20263 Penlee Gardens Plymouth PL3 4AN
Received 22 Sept 2026Land At Bath Street Plymouth PL1 3LT
Received 22 Sept 2026225 Embankment Road Plymouth PL4 9JH
Received 23 Sept 202641 Great Woodford Drive Plymouth PL7 4RP
Received 23 Sept 2026Land At Creative Court Central Park Avenue Plymouth PL4 6NW
Received 23 Sept 2026Building N114, Devonport Dockyard Saltash Road Keyham Plymouth PL1 4SG
Received 23 Sept 202654 Glendower Road Plymouth PL3 4LD
Received 23 Sept 202650 Dunstone Road Plymstock Plymouth PL9 8SF
Received 23 Sept 2026Building N114, Devonport Dockyard Saltash Road Keyham Plymouth PL1 4SG
Received 23 Sept 202616 Grafton Road Plymouth PL4 6QR
Received 23 Sept 202622 North Prospect Road Plymouth PL2 3HY
Received 24 Sept 202654 Widewell Road Plymouth PL6 7DW
Received 24 Sept 202622 North Prospect Road Plymouth PL2 3HY
Received 24 Sept 20265 Headland Park Plymouth PL4 8HS
Received 25 Sept 202614 Coombe Way Plymouth PL5 2HB
Received 25 Sept 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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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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