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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
32,821 approved · 6,075 refused · 1,169 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Jun 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
LAND BOUNDED BY CENTRAL DRIVE, NEW BONNY STREET, BONNY STREET, SEASIDERS WAY AND CHAPEL STREET , BLACKPOOL, FY1 5RL
Received 24 Aug 202228 OSBORNE ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1HJ
Received 25 Aug 202218 GLENARDEN AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY5 3SL
Received 23 Aug 202260 Stockydale Road
Received 9 Jul 199021 SQUIRES GATE LANE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1SN
Received 25 Aug 202213-19 BANK HEY STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 4RS
Received 26 Aug 202213- 19 BANK HEY STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 4RS
Received 26 Aug 202272 CONWAY AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY5 3JH
Received 29 Aug 202213 ALDWYCH AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 9LQ
Received 30 Aug 202260 Stockydale Road
Received 9 Jul 1990LAND ADJACENT TO 502 MIDGELAND ROAD, BLACKPOOL
Received 30 Aug 2022LAND AT PROGRESS WAY, BLACKPOOL
Received 30 Aug 202212 GREENWOOD AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY1 6RF
Received 30 Aug 2022THE GRANGE, ATTHEGRANGE, 2A DINMORE AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 7RW
Received 1 Sept 20227 KILDONAN AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5NL
Received 1 Sept 202224 Reads Avenue
Received 9 Jul 1990351 PROMENADE, BLACKPOOL, FY1 6BJ
Received 1 Sept 20228 HURSTMERE AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 3EJ
Received 2 Sept 20228 DAGGERS HALL LANE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 4AY
Received 1 Sept 202251 WARLEY ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 2LJ
Received 2 Sept 2022174 READS AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY1 4JD
Received 5 Sept 202229-31 COOKSON STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 3EA
Received 5 Sept 202238 HIGHFIELD ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 2JA
Received 5 Sept 2022397 WARLEY ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY2 0ST
Received 5 Sept 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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