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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
21,124 approved · 2,051 refused · 1,193 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 12 Nov 1987 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 26 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Between Barleythorpe And Oakham Burley Park Way Oakham Rutland
Received 5 Dec 2012Church Farm House 10 Church Street Empingham Rutland LE15 8PN
Received 17 Dec 20121 Don Close Oakham Rutland LE15 6JS
Received 17 Dec 20125 Rutland Close Uppingham Rutland LE15 9RF
Received 17 Dec 20122 West Lane Ridlington Rutland LE15 9AY
Received 17 Dec 201215 Main Street Preston Rutland LE15 9NJ
Received 17 Dec 2012Thoms Barn Main Street Clipsham Rutland LE15 7SH
Received 17 Dec 2012Tinwell Grange Crown Lane Tinwell Rutland PE9 3UF
Received 17 Dec 2012Fancourts Farm Shop The Square Ryhall Rutland PE9 4HJ
Received 17 Dec 2012Fancourts Farm Shop The Square Ryhall Rutland PE9 4HJ
Received 17 Dec 20127 Orchard Close Egleton Rutland LE15 8AG
Received 14 Dec 20128 Well Street Langham Rutland LE15 7JS
Received 14 Dec 20125 Church Street Empingham Rutland LE15 8PN
Received 14 Dec 20121 Orchard Close Egleton Rutland LE15 8AG
Received 14 Dec 20121 West Court Cour D'honneur Burley Rutland LE15 7FH
Received 13 Dec 20121 West Court Cour D'honneur Burley Rutland LE15 7FH
Received 13 Dec 20121 West Court Cour D'honneur Burley Rutland LE15 7FH
Received 13 Dec 2012Sites Off Branston Road Uppingham Rutland
Received 12 Dec 2012The Falcon Hotel 7 High Street East Uppingham Rutland LE15 9PY
Received 12 Dec 20121 Orchard Close Egleton Rutland LE15 8AG
Received 11 Dec 2012Rutland Village Rutland Garden Centre Ashwell Road Oakham Rutland LE15 7QN
Received 11 Dec 20126 The Dell Oakham Rutland LE15 6JG
Received 11 Dec 2012Thatch Cottage 2 Crown Street Oakham Rutland LE15 6AE
Received 11 Dec 2012Preston Hall 33 Main Street Preston Rutland LE15 9NJ
Received 11 Dec 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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