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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
30,739 approved · 5,594 refused · 1,164 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 18 May 1984 to 17 Oct 2028. Most recent record check: 27 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 IPSWICH PLACE, BLACKPOOL, FY5 1SP
Received 8 Feb 2021Land Between 463/505 Midgeland Road
Received 29 May 199075 WITHNELL ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1HE
Received 8 Feb 2021ALL HALLOWS RECTORY, 86 ALL HALLOWS ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY2 0AY
Received 8 Feb 2021BLACKPOOL VICTORIA HOSPITAL, WHINNEY HEYS ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY3 8BD
Received 8 Feb 20217 MADISON AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 9HE
Received 9 Feb 202128 HALTON GARDENS, BLACKPOOL, FY4 4LZ
Received 9 Feb 202111 MARTON FOLD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5FJ
Received 9 Feb 202137 LYTHAM ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 6DU
Received 9 Feb 202159 NORTH PARK DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 8NH
Received 9 Feb 202119 Sharow Grove
Received 29 May 1990FORMER B & Q PLC, HOLYOAKE AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 0BQ
Received 9 Feb 202145 INGTHORPE AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 0EL
Received 10 Feb 202145 SALMESBURY AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 0PR
Received 10 Feb 2021112 - 118 HIGHFIELD ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 2JF
Received 11 Feb 2021106 - 108 LYTHAM ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 6DZ
Received 11 Feb 202118 YORKSHIRE STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 5BG
Received 11 Feb 202199 TOPPING STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 3AA
Received 11 Feb 20217 Camden Road
Received 30 May 1990BLACKPOOL VICTORIA HOSPITAL, WHINNEY HEYS ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY3 8BD
Received 11 Feb 202134-36 COOP STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 5AJ
Received 11 Feb 2021LAND TO THE REAR OF 91A NORTH PARK DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 8NH
Received 11 Feb 202119 LAUDERDALE AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY5 3JP
Received 11 Feb 2021UNIT 7, SQUIRES GATE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 3RN
Received 11 Feb 2021Records 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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