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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
30,934 approved · 5,637 refused · 1,164 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 12 Mar 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Former Bakery, Threlfall Road
Received 27 Aug 198614/16 Red Bank Road
Received 1 Jun 19902 SCHOOL ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5DX
Received 26 Mar 2021153 BISPHAM ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY2 0NN
Received 26 Mar 202134 KIRKHAM AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY1 6RJ
Received 26 Mar 2021130 FLEETWOOD ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY5 1RD
Received 29 Mar 202136 WEST PARK DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 9HX
Received 29 Mar 202114 SAWLEY AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 2ND
Received 29 Mar 202151 STONY HILL AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1PR
Received 29 Mar 20218 GREENBRIAR CLOSE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 7SA
Received 29 Mar 20211/3 Handsworth Road
Received 4 Jun 199062 MOSSOM LANE, BLACKPOOL, FY5 3AA
Received 29 Mar 20212 ASHWELL PLACE, BLACKPOOL, FY5 1QS
Received 29 Mar 202134 OVERDALE GROVE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 7TS
Received 29 Mar 20211A LINNET CLOSE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 8FL
Received 30 Mar 202132 HARRIS AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY1 6NJ
Received 30 Mar 202121 REGENT ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 4NB
Received 29 Mar 20216 ALBION AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 8NA
Received 29 Mar 2021ANCHORSHOLME METHODIST CHURCH, NORTH DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY5 3PG
Received 29 Mar 20215 LIMECHASE CLOSE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5LR
Received 29 Mar 202132 WELLINGTON ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 6AR
Received 30 Mar 202144 Beryl Avenue
Received 4 Jun 1990203 PALATINE ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 4DX
Received 4 Jun 1990269 MIDGELAND ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5JA
Received 31 Mar 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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