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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
33,712 approved · 6,350 refused · 1,173 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 12 Jun 1981 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
123 BOND STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1EY
Received 19 Jul 202356 MAPLEWOOD DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY5 1PW
Received 19 Jul 202363 TALBOT ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 1LL
Received 19 Jul 202373 TOPPING STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 3AF
Received 19 Jul 202373 TOPPING STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 3AF
Received 19 Jul 202352 KESWICK ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 5PB
Received 8 Sept 198625 Albert Road
Received 3 Aug 1990495-497 PROMENADE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1BA
Received 20 Jul 202376 LANCASTER ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY3 9ST
Received 20 Jul 202376 LANCASTER ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY3 9ST
Received 20 Jul 20234 BIRLEY STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 1DU
Received 20 Jul 202325 RAWCLIFFE STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1BY
Received 21 Jul 202363 TALBOT ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 1LL
Received 21 Jul 2023451 WATERLOO ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 4BW
Received 21 Jul 202394 EDMONTON PLACE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 0UU
Received 21 Jul 202314b Milbourne Street
Received 3 Aug 199024-28 CHARNLEY ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 4PF
Received 24 Jul 202365 TOPPING STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 3AF
Received 24 Jul 2023WILLOW DENE, DOCKY POOL LANE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5JG
Received 24 Jul 2023LAND AT HIGHFIELD ROAD, BLACKPOOL
Received 24 Jul 2023LAND AT SQUIRES GATE LANE ADJACENT BLACKPOOL RETAIL PARK, BLACKPOOL
Received 25 Jul 202367 BEAUFORT AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 9AG
Received 25 Jul 2023GLASDON HOUSE, PRESTON NEW ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 4WA
Received 25 Jul 2023WHITEGATE MANOR, WHITEGATE DRIVE, BLACKPOOL FY3 9JL
Received 26 Jul 2023Records 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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