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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
27,978 approved · 4,860 refused · 1,152 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 12 Jan 1987 to 22 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 25 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
MARTON MERE HOLIDAY VILLAGE, MYTHOP ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 4EA
Received 15 Mar 201915 BOWGREAVE CLOSE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5RD
Received 15 Mar 201910 ASHWELL PLACE, BLACKPOOL, FY5 1QS
Received 18 Mar 2019179 CLIFTON DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1RU
Received 18 Mar 2019LAND TO THE NORTH OF OF RYSCAR WAY AND WEST OF FARADAY WAY BLACKPOOL
Received 18 Mar 201929-35 RIPON ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 4DY
Received 18 Mar 20192 WILLOWBANK AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 3NB
Received 18 Mar 201940-42 CORONATION STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 4PB
Received 20 Mar 201922 Beech Avenue
Received 3 May 1990LAND ADJACENT TO 44 MOSS HOUSE ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5JE
Received 20 Mar 201932-34 WARLEY ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 2LJ
Received 20 Mar 201949 TORONTO AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 0PD
Received 21 Mar 2019254 QUEENS PROMENADE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 9HB
Received 22 Mar 201915 GOSFORTH ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY2 9UB
Received 22 Mar 2019109 BISPHAM ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY2 0NR
Received 25 Mar 201955 Central Drive
Received 23 Apr 1990428 QUEENS PROMENADE, BLACKPOOL, FY5 1QT
Received 25 Mar 2019400 QUEENS PROMENADE, BLACKPOOL, FY5 1QT
Received 25 Mar 20192 CANDLEWOOD AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5GX
Received 25 Mar 2019420 WATERLOO ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 4BL
Received 25 Mar 201937 GEORGE STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 3DB
Received 25 Mar 2019CENTRAL PIER, PROMENADE, BLACKPOOL, FY1 5BB
Received 23 Apr 199022 BOSCOMBE ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1LW
Received 27 Mar 2019LARBRECK VILLA, DIVISION LANE, LYTHAM ST ANNES, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5DZ
Received 27 Mar 2019Records 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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