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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
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Plymouth City Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Plymouth website
9,488 approved · 812 refused · 679 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 31 Aug 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
88 Durnford Street Plymouth PL1 3QW
Received 2 Oct 2026Flat 5, 60 Durnford Street Plymouth PL1 3QN
Received 2 Oct 202635 Efford Road Plymouth PL3 6NE
Received 2 Oct 20269 Hazelwood Crescent Plymouth PL9 8BL
Received 2 Oct 20261 Martin Street Plymouth PL1 3NE
Received 2 Oct 2026Mount Wise, Mount Wise Crescent Plymouth PL1 4GQ
Received 2 Oct 202616 - 18 Cornwall Street City Centre Plymouth PL1 1LP
Received 5 Oct 202618 Mount Street Greenbank Plymouth PL4 8NZ
Received 5 Oct 20261 Bowden Farm Church Hill Plymouth PL6 5RB
Received 5 Oct 202610 - 10A The Square Plymouth PL1 3JX
Received 5 Oct 202610 Coombe Way Plymouth PL5 2HB
Received 5 Oct 202664 Cardinal Avenue Plymouth PL5 1UT
Received 5 Oct 202619 Reddicliff Road Plymouth PL9 9NF
Received 5 Oct 2026127 Wembury Road Plymouth PL9 8EZ
Received 5 Oct 202631 Station Road Plympton Plymouth
Received 5 Oct 2026Civic Centre, Armada Way Plymouth PL1 2AA
Received 5 Oct 202616 Eastfield Crescent Plymouth PL3 5JX
Received 6 Oct 2026Unit 1, 145 Plymouth Road Plymouth PL7 4NF
Received 6 Oct 2026432 Tavistock Road Plymouth PL6 7HQ
Received 6 Oct 2026436 - 438 Tavistock Road Plymouth PL6 7HQ
Received 6 Oct 20267 The Grove Stoke Plymouth PL3 4AL
Received 6 Oct 2026Lambhay Hill Car Park And Former Rifle Range Plymouth PL1 2NT
Received 6 Oct 20266 Blue Haze Close Plymouth PL6 7HR
Received 7 Oct 2026Saltram House Saltram Merafield Road Plymouth PL7 1UH
Received 6 Oct 2026Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart 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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