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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 Blackpool Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Blackpool website
23,708 approved · 3,901 refused · 1,146 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 Oct 1990 to 22 Sept 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
21 EPSOM ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY5 3HS
Received 23 Sept 20154 BLANDFORD AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY5 1ST
Received 23 Sept 2015293 WARBRECK HILL ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY2 0SZ
Received 24 Sept 201518 QUEBEC AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 0NU
Received 25 Sept 2015261 MIDGELAND ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5JA
Received 25 Sept 20158 PALLADIUM BUILDINGS, WATERLOO ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1AG
Received 25 Sept 20158 PALLADIUM BUILDINGS, WATERLOO ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1AG
Received 25 Sept 2015101 WILLOWBANK AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 3ND
Received 28 Sept 2015LAND AT TAYBANK AVENUE & LIVET AVENUE, BLACKPOOL
Received 28 Sept 201528 PLUMPTON AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 3RB
Received 29 Sept 201537 WOODSTOCK GARDENS, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1JW
Received 29 Sept 2015CHISWICK HOUSE, CHISWICK GROVE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 9TW
Received 29 Sept 201514 OXENHURST ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY3 7TN
Received 30 Sept 201533 CRESTWAY, BLACKPOOL, FY3 8PA
Received 30 Sept 201518 GUILDFORD AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 9BG
Received 1 Oct 201586 PROMENADE, BLACKPOOL, FY1 1HB
Received 2 Oct 201576 KENT ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 5ET
Received 2 Oct 201524 LOXHAM GARDENS, BLACKPOOL, FY4 3NY
Received 2 Oct 201582-84 BANK HEY STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 4PX
Received 2 Oct 201582-84 BANK HEY STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 4PX
Received 2 Oct 2015239-241 LYTHAM ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 6ET
Received 2 Oct 2015230 BRISTOL AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 0JF
Received 5 Oct 201552 HESKETH AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 9JX
Received 5 Oct 2015UFORIA SPORT CENTRE, GARSTANG ROAD WEST, BLACKPOOL, FY3 7JH
Received 6 Oct 2015Records 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 Blackpool Borough 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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