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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
23,811 approved · 3,918 refused · 1,146 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Sept 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
52 BATHURST AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 7RL
Received 10 Dec 2015100 ST ANNES ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 2BA
Received 10 Dec 2015100 ST ANNES ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 2BA
Received 10 Dec 201515 CLIFTON STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 1JD
Received 10 Dec 2015174 READS AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY1 4JD
Received 10 Dec 201570 WOODSTOCK GARDENS, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1JP
Received 10 Dec 2015TOWN HALL, TALBOT SQUARE, BLACKPOOL, FY1 1NG
Received 11 Dec 2015LAND BOUNDED BY STIRLING ROAD, MATHER STREET, COLLINGWOOD AVENUE AND REAR OF ADDISON CRESCENT (QUEENS PARK & LAYTON RECREATION GROUND), BLACKPOOL
Received 14 Dec 2015BLACKPOOL VICTORIA HOSPITAL, WHINNEY HEYS ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY3 8BD
Received 11 Dec 201532 EDWARD STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 1BH
Received 14 Dec 2015ASDA, 160 CHERRY TREE ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 4QH
Received 14 Dec 201512 MURCHISON GROVE, BLACKPOOL, FY5 3RA
Received 14 Dec 20157 STATION TERRACE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1HT
Received 11 Dec 20151 CHORLEY ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY3 7XQ
Received 15 Dec 201546 CLEATOR AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 9TZ
Received 15 Dec 2015124 HORNBY ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 4QS
Received 16 Dec 2015REAR OF 219 - 229 PALATINE ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 4DX
Received 16 Dec 2015136-140 PROMENADE, BLACKPOOL, FY1 1RA
Received 17 Dec 2015LAND BOUNDED BY CORONATION STREET, ADELAIDE STREET AND TOWER STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 4LA
Received 18 Dec 20151 ASHWORTH ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5LP
Received 18 Dec 201542 HIGH STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 2BN
Received 18 Dec 2015133 PARK ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 4ET
Received 18 Dec 20159-11 MILBOURNE STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 3ER
Received 18 Dec 20152 THE KNOWLE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 0RY
Received 18 Dec 2015Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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