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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
30,999 approved · 5,646 refused · 1,164 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 Feb 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
105 NORTH PARK DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 8NE
Received 1 Apr 202129A MANSFIELD ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY3 7HZ
Received 31 Mar 202152 MOSS HOUSE ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5JE
Received 1 Apr 2021CO-OPERATIVE SPORTS & SOCIAL CLUB, PRESTON NEW ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 4RE
Received 2 Apr 202113 NORTH PARK DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 8LP
Received 4 Apr 202123 ST LUKES ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 2EL
Received 6 Apr 202175 ERDINGTON ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 5EL
Received 4 Jun 1990SITE OF FORMER AMBASSADOR HOTEL, 332-334 PROMENADE, BLACKPOOL, FY1 2JG
Received 6 Apr 202121 DUNCAN AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 9DB
Received 6 Apr 2021BEAVERBROOKS HOUSE, 145-147 NEWTON DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 8LZ
Received 6 Apr 202114 SOUTH PARADE, BLACKPOOL, FY5 3NP
Received 6 Apr 20217 WELLINGTON ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 6AR
Received 6 Apr 202150 LAYTON ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY3 8HT
Received 7 Apr 2021LAND ADJACENT TO WILLOW DENE, DOCKY POOL LANE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5JG
Received 7 Apr 202136 LEYS ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY2 0SG
Received 7 Apr 20212 BANBURY AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 0TX
Received 7 Apr 202134 ST VINCENT AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY1 6RT
Received 7 Apr 202125 COUNTESS CRESCENT, BLACKPOOL, FY2 9LQ
Received 7 Apr 202119 ST GEORGES AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY5 3JN
Received 8 Apr 2021228 ANCHORSHOLME LANE EAST, BLACKPOOL, FY5 3BP
Received 8 Apr 2021LAND AT VILLAGE HOTEL, EAST PARK DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 8LL
Received 9 Apr 2021Land At Cornford Road
Received 4 Jun 1990432 QUEENS PROMENADE, BLACKPOOL, FY5 1QT
Received 12 Apr 2021166 PRESTON OLD ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY3 9QY
Received 12 Apr 2021Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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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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