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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
32,368 approved · 5,945 refused · 1,166 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 18 Nov 1982 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
188 PROMENADE, BLACKPOOL, FY1 1RJ
Received 26 Apr 2022109 EASTPINES DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY5 3RY
Received 26 Apr 2022209-211 ST ANNES ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 2BL
Received 26 Apr 202218 GARDEN TERRACE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 2AD
Received 27 Apr 2022128 PALATINE ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 4DS
Received 27 Apr 20229-11 SOUTH KING STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 4LS
Received 27 Apr 2022KAMAN COURT, FARADAY WAY, BLACKPOOL, FY2 0JH
Received 27 Apr 202253 Rectory Road
Received 29 Jun 1990PLOT 109, AMY JOHNSON WAY, BLACKPOOL, FY4 2RP
Received 29 Apr 202213 - 19 DEANSGATE & 2 EDWARD STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 1BN
Received 2 May 20221 STONYCROFT AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 2NR
Received 3 May 20221 STONYCROFT AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 2NR
Received 3 May 2022LAND OPPOSITE UNIT M BLACKPOOL RETAIL PARK, AMY JOHNSON WAY, BLACKPOOL FY4 2RP
Received 3 May 20224 WELBECK AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 4ES
Received 3 May 2022223 BISPHAM ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY2 0NG
Received 19 Feb 199614 GYNN AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY1 2LD
Received 2 Sept 19864 Huntingdon Road
Received 2 Jul 1990LAND BOUNDED BY PRINCESS STREET, SEASIDERS WAY, RIGBY ROAD & BLUNDELL STREET, AND LAND BOUNDED BY RIGBY ROAD, CENTRAL DRIVE, FIELD STREET & SEASIDERS WAY
Received 4 May 20226 CAVENDISH ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY2 9JR
Received 4 May 2022ST MARKS CHURCH, WESTCLIFFE DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 7HG
Received 4 May 202244-46 HULL ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 4QB
Received 4 May 20223 HALLS COTTAGES, STOCKYDALE ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5HN
Received 4 May 2022353 DEVONSHIRE ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY2 0RA
Received 4 May 2022LAND AT 157 WHITEGATE DRIVE, BLACKPOOL
Received 4 May 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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