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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
32,968 approved · 6,119 refused · 1,170 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 30 Mar 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
31 MAGDALEN ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY5 3EF
Received 30 Sept 202212 HOLMFIELD ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY2 9TB
Received 30 Sept 202257 HIGH STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 2BN
Received 30 Sept 202257 TORSWAY AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 8JZ
Received 3 Oct 20225 RUGBY STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY4 3BE
Received 2 Sept 198619 Plymouth Road
Received 10 Jul 199022 OSBORNE ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1HJ
Received 5 Oct 2022HIGHFURLONG SPECIAL SCHOOL, BLACKPOOL OLD ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY3 7LR
Received 6 Oct 20223 VANCE ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 4QD
Received 6 Oct 202268 CHURCH STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 1HP
Received 6 Oct 2022LAND AT GEORGE STREET AND COLERIDGE ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 3SE
Received 6 Oct 2022111 HOLMFIELD ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY2 9RS
Received 7 Oct 202244A MOSS HOUSE ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5JE
Received 7 Oct 202253 Cunliffe Road
Received 11 Jul 199059-61 ABINGDON STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 1DH
Received 7 Oct 20221 THE CROFT, BLACKPOOL, FY5 3JL
Received 10 Oct 2022169 PROMENADE, BLACKPOOL, FY1 5BQ
Received 10 Oct 2022308 QUEENS PROMENADE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 9AD
Received 10 Oct 2022BLACKPOOL VICTORIA HOSPITAL, WHINNEY HEYS ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY3 8NR
Received 10 Oct 2022315 FLEETWOOD ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY5 1NH
Received 11 Oct 202261 BOND STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1BW
Received 11 Oct 2022LAND AT MOSS HOUSE ROAD, MARTON MOSS, BLACKPOOL
Received 11 Oct 2022Newfields Dickies Lane
Received 11 Jul 19902 FISHERS LANE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5DN
Received 11 Oct 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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