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1 Berkeley Cottages Collingwood Road Plymouth PL1 5QT
Replacement roof covering (part retrospective) and associated works.
73 Pemros Road Plymouth PL5 1LX
Lawful development Certificate for a proposed rear dormer
40 Corporation Road Plymouth PL2 3NT
First floor extension above existing rear extension
22 Cornwall Street City Centre Plymouth PL1 1LP
Installation of 1 no digital marketing screen to shopfront
Land At Fitzroy Road Plymouth PL1 5PY
Variation of Condition 1 (Approved Plans) for application 25/00849/FUL to remove gable parapet walls, alter window/door materials, and alter PV panel layout of approved dwelling
28 Wyndham Square Plymouth PL1 5EG
Various external (inc. window and door alterations, removal of bay window and cladding, replacement external stair and associated landing, alterations to rainwater goods and rendering) and internal (i
1 Delgany Villas Delgany Drive Plymouth PL6 8AG
Pre-application for Proposed erection of a detached domestic garage on land opposite 1 Delgany Villas
8 Woodside Plymouth PL4 8QE
Description: Discharge of Conditions 3 (Car Parking Provision), 4 (Cycle Provision) and 5 (Electric Vehicle Charging Provision) attached to Planning Permission 22/02107/FUL
6 Robert Adams Close Plymouth PL7 2FE
T1 Holm Oak Fell + G1 Holm Oaks Lateral reduction on the N/E side leaving crown width of 4m.
178 - 184 Armada Way Plymouth PL1 1LD
Pre application advice sought regarding the proposed approach to demolition of Mayflower House, Congress Hall and 19 Mayflower Street
35 - 37 Mayflower Street Plymouth PL1 1QJ
Pre-application for change of use to restaurant/takeaway (Sui Generis)
20 Eastfield Avenue Plymouth PL9 9PA
Erection of two storey side extension and front hardstand
Allotment Gardens, Prince Maurice Road Plymouth
Discharge of obligations to provide 44no. affordable houses and all other financial contributions contained within the S106 Agreement for planning application 18/00432/FUL
63 Triumphal Crescent Plymouth PL7 4RW
Pre-application for floor roof conversion, likely taking it past the ridge line.
Denmark Horsham Lane Tamerton Foliot Plymouth PL5 4NP
Fig Tree- Crown reduced by 2-3m. Laburnum Tree - Fell
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When Plymouth City Council refuses an application, or does not decide it in time, the applicant can appeal to the Planning Inspectorate. An appeal that is allowed is one the council lost. Raw rates are not comparable between councils, because some kinds of appeal are allowed far more often than others, so the Inspectorate's national rate for each kind is applied to this council's own caseload to give the rate its mix predicts.
Plymouth City Council, raw rate
21.5%
of judged appeals were allowed, so the council's decision did not stand
Expected for this mix of appeals
30.6%
what the national rate for each kind of appeal predicts for this council's caseload
9.1 percentage points below expected. Plymouth City Council's decisions are overturned less often than the national record for the same kinds of appeal predicts for its caseload.
284 appeals counted, 274 judged either way (59 allowed, 215 dismissed), 10 judged neither way. These are appeals decided 2016-08 to 2026-06.
Each kind of appeal against the national rate for the same kind. This is the comparison the headline is built from.
| Appeal type | Cases | Judged | Allowed | This council | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planning Appeal | 159 | 157 | 28 | 17.8% | 28.8% |
| Householder (HAS) | 72 | 71 | 24 | 33.8% | 35.6% |
| Advertisement Appeal | 17 | 17 | 1 | 5.9% | 36% |
| Enforcement Notice | 12 | 8 | 1 | 12.5% | 13.5% |
| Commercial Appeal Service (CAS) | 11 | 11 | 4 | 36.4% | 33.3% |
| Listed Building Consent & Conservation Area Consent Appeal | 6 | 6 | 1 | 16.7% | 25% |
| Environmental | 2 | 0 | 0 | None judged | Not published |
| Tree Preservation Order | 2 | 2 | 0 | Too few judged | 20.6% |
| Commercial Appeals Service (Adverts) | 1 | 1 | 0 | Too few judged | 27.6% |
| High Hedges | 1 | 0 | 0 | None judged | 28.5% |
| Section 106 Agreement | 1 | 1 | 0 | Too few judged | 39.8% |
“Judged” counts appeals allowed or dismissed. The rest were withdrawn, invalid, split or unrecorded, and are counted but never treated as appeals the council won. A percentage is published only where at least 5 appeals were judged either way. Where it is not, the counts still are: a rate over one or two cases would claim a precision the sample cannot carry.
Source: the Planning Inspectorate's Casework Database, published quarterly on GOV.UK. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. These figures are the Inspectorate's appeal record, not the council's own planning register.
Plymouth City Council collects contributions from developers under planning obligations, but we do not yet hold its register in a form we can publish figures from. Only a minority of authorities publish one we can read, and this is not one of them, so we show nothing rather than a figure we cannot stand behind.
Beside what the council collected from developers, this is what central government confirmed: schemes in the area with grant agreed under the Homes England Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026.
Source: Homes England, schemes confirmed under the Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026, published on GOV.UK as transparency data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are as at 31 March 2025, the publication's own cut-off, so later schemes are not in them. Grant requested is the publisher's own figure at the point grant was confirmed, not money drawn down. Schemes are placed by the local authority name in the publication, which carries no planning reference.
Plymouth City Council is a local planning authority responsible for processing planning applications within its area. Applications are submitted through the council's planning portal and cover a wide range of development types, from householder extensions and change of use to large-scale residential and commercial schemes.
SiteLens tracks the Plymouth City Council planning register daily and enriches every new application automatically. Each is AI-classified by category and trade, given an estimated value band and a plain-English project brief, mapped, and checked against constraint flags like flood zones, conservation areas and green belt. Where an application names an agent, SiteLens shows the firm and matches companies to Companies House. Pro adds the applicant's name, the directors and company health behind each match, and the agent's direct email and phone where the council or firm publishes them, so you know who to speak to about the scheme.
You can also browse the council's own planning register on the official Plymouth City Council planning portal.
Share of decided applications approved in the last 12 months. A guide, not a guarantee.
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