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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
26,848 approved · 4,590 refused · 1,151 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 18 Mar 1988 to 22 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 24 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
LAND ADJACENT TO 71 MOSS HOUSE ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5JF
Received 7 Jun 201861 WITHNELL ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1HE
Received 11 Jun 201850 BUCKLEY CRESCENT, BLACKPOOL, FY5 1RH
Received 11 Jun 201846A COOKSON STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 3ED
Received 12 Jun 2018288 BISPHAM ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY2 0HQ
Received 11 Jun 20187/9 Roselyn Avenue
Received 5 Apr 1990LAND NORTH SIDE (ADJ 17 & 21) MOSS HOUSE ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5JF
Received 13 Jun 2018LAND ADJACENT TO 14 STRATHDALE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5BB
Received 14 Jun 201828 CORPORATION STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 1EJ
Received 15 Jun 201851 AYRTON AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 2BW
Received 15 Jun 2018LAND AT (FORMER E H BOOTH & CO LTD) HIGHFIELD ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5AP
Received 15 Jun 20183 Dunes Avenue
Received 5 Apr 19903 THE KNOWLE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 0RY
Received 18 Jun 2018180-182 PROMENADE, BLACKPOOL, FY1 1RJ
Received 19 Jun 201891A NORTH PARK DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 8NH
Received 19 Jun 201810 CHARLES STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 3HD
Received 20 Jun 20184 CAMPBELL AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 8RG
Received 20 Jun 2018CAR PARK, HILTON AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY1 6HF
Received 21 Jun 2018420 WATERLOO ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 4BL
Received 21 Jun 20189 DUNBAR CLOSE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5ND
Received 22 Jun 2018SOUTHGATE, BENNETTS LANE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5BE
Received 22 Jun 2018BLACKPOOL HYPERMARKET, 160 CHERRY TREE ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 4QH
Received 3 Apr 199011 MADISON AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 9HE
Received 25 Jun 201811 READS AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY1 4BW
Received 25 Jun 2018Records 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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