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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
33,007 approved · 6,136 refused · 1,170 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 11 Mar 1982 to 17 Oct 2028. Most recent record check: 29 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
101-103 TOPPING STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 3AA
Received 21 Oct 2022LAND ADJACENT TO 9 FISHERS LANE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5DN
Received 21 Oct 2022LAND BOUNDED BY CORONATION STREET, ADELAIDE STREET AND TOWER STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 4LA
Received 21 Oct 202216 SOUTH KING STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 4ND
Received 24 Oct 2022BLACKPOOL VICTORIA HOSPITAL, WHINNEY HEYS ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY3 8NR
Received 24 Oct 2022ST MICHAELS VICARAGE, CALVERT PLACE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 7RU
Received 24 Oct 20221 SANDON PLACE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 2PU
Received 24 Oct 2022451 LYTHAM ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1JE
Received 25 Oct 20221- 7 GORTON STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 3HP
Received 25 Oct 202218 WOLVERTON AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 9NT
Received 25 Oct 2022ALL HALLOWS RECTORY, 86 ALL HALLOWS ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY2 0AY
Received 26 Oct 202214 PENROSE AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 4DH
Received 26 Oct 202290 LYDDESDALE AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY5 3EL
Received 26 Oct 202219 Broadway
Received 11 Jul 199045 MERE ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY3 9AU
Received 26 Oct 202218-19 SHANNON STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 5AL
Received 26 Oct 202243 QUEEN STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 1HQ
Received 27 Oct 2022109 POULTON ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY3 7JJ
Received 27 Oct 202214 SEVENTH AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 2ED
Received 28 Oct 2022Offshore wind farm development
Received 28 Oct 2022FESTIVAL LEISURE PARK, RIGBY ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 5EP
Received 28 Oct 202217 Broadway
Received 11 Jul 1990WICKES BUILDING SUPPLIES LTD, PRESTON NEW ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY3 9TN
Received 1 Nov 2022186 WEST PARK DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 9LW
Received 31 Oct 2022Records 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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