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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 Rutland County Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Rutland website
22,070 approved · 2,147 refused · 1,286 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 12 Nov 1987 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 27 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Plots 1-4 Long Barn Farmyard High Street Ketton Rutland
Received 4 May 2012Bramham House 75 Main Street Empingham Rutland LE15 8PR
Received 23 May 2012Grange Top Quarry Pit Lane Ketton Rutland
Received 23 May 2012The Reading Room School Lane Morcott Rutland LE15 9DT
Received 10 May 201218 Lonsdale Way Oakham Rutland LE15 6LR
Received 3 May 2012Fountains Barn 32A Main Street Cottesmore Rutland LE15 7DJ
Received 3 May 2012The Oval Recreation Ground Pinfold Lane North Luffenham Rutland
Received 3 May 201235 Ruddle Way Langham Rutland LE15 7NZ
Received 1 May 2012Heath Cottage The Drift Ryhall Rutland PE9 4EF
Received 1 May 20123 The Vale Oakham Rutland LE15 6JQ
Received 2 May 2012Saddlers Croft 32 Main Street Empingham Rutland LE15 8PS
Received 2 May 2012Stonehouse 3 Gretton Road Lyddington Rutland LE15 9LP
Received 30 Apr 2012The Lodge The Old Hall Stables 45 Church Street Langham Rutland LE15 7JE
Received 30 Apr 20125 Ruddle Way Langham Rutland LE15 7NZ
Received 1 May 2012Highview Essendine Road Ryhall Rutland PE9 4HE
Received 1 May 201232 Rutland Way Ryhall Rutland PE9 4ET
Received 3 May 20123 Church Lane Greetham Rutland LE15 7NF
Received 30 Apr 2012The Sun Inn 25 Main Street Cottesmore Rutland LE15 7DH
Received 1 May 201225 Bull Lane Ketton Rutland PE9 3TB
Received 1 May 2012Old Nursery Stamford Road South Luffenham Rutland LE15 9DU
Received 1 May 201263 High Street Ketton Rutland
Received 27 Apr 201217 Hambleton Close Oakham Rutland LE15 6FY
Received 27 Apr 2012The Retreat Ketton Road Hambleton Rutland LE15 8TH
Received 26 Apr 2012St Botolphs Church Main Street Wardley Rutland
Received 24 Apr 2012Records 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 Rutland County 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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