Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
32,088 approved · 5,898 refused · 1,165 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Feb 1983 to 17 Oct 2028. Most recent record check: 28 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 CLIFTON DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1NE
Received 4 Jan 2022352 COMMON EDGE ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5DY
Received 4 Jan 2022LAND ADJOINING 2 ALBANY AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1PN
Received 22 Jun 1990CHAPEL HOUSE, CHAPEL ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5HU
Received 4 Jan 202210 ULLSWATER ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 2BZ
Received 5 Jan 202218 LANDSEER AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 9EF
Received 6 Jan 202247 CAMBRAY ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 2LX
Received 6 Jan 2022LAND AT COMMON EDGE ROAD, BLACKPOOL FY4 5DY ENTERPRISE ZONE
Received 7 Jan 202225 KINGSTON AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 2QB
Received 10 Jan 202222 Hornby Road
Received 22 Jun 199016 WELLINGTON ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 6AR
Received 10 Jan 20228-10 WATERLOO ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1AB
Received 10 Jan 20228-10 WATERLOO ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1AB
Received 10 Jan 2022ODEON CINEMA, RIGBY ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 5EP
Received 10 Jan 2022LAND BOUNDED BY CENTRAL DRIVE, NEW BONNY STREET, BONNY STREET, SEASIDERS WAY AND CHAPEL STREET , BLACKPOOL, FY1 5RL
Received 11 Jan 2022LAND BOUNDED BY CENTRAL DRIVE, NEW BONNY STREET, BONNY STREET, SEASIDERS WAY AND CHAPEL STREET , BLACKPOOL, FY1 5RL
Received 11 Jan 2022LAND BOUNDED BY CENTRAL DRIVE, NEW BONNY STREET, BONNY STREET, SEASIDERS WAY AND CHAPEL STREET , BLACKPOOL, FY1 5RL
Received 11 Jan 2022LAND BOUNDED BY CENTRAL DRIVE, NEW BONNY STREET, BONNY STREET, SEASIDERS WAY AND CHAPEL STREET , BLACKPOOL, FY1 5RL
Received 11 Jan 2022LAND BOUNDED BY CENTRAL DRIVE, NEW BONNY STREET, BONNY STREET, SEASIDERS WAY AND CHAPEL STREET , BLACKPOOL, FY1 5RL
Received 11 Jan 202228/30 Warbreck Hill Road
Received 22 Jun 1990266A CHURCH STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 3PZ
Received 11 Jan 202231 CLIFTON STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 1JQ
Received 12 Jan 202285 HENSON AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 3LY
Received 14 Jan 202276 WEST PARK DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 9HU
Received 17 Jan 2022Records 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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