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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
33,792 approved · 6,359 refused · 1,174 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 18 May 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
35 Harrowside
Received 8 Aug 199076 LORD STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 2DG
Received 18 Aug 2023PARK COMMUNITY ACADEMY, WHITEGATE DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 9HF
Received 18 Aug 202318A MOSS HOUSE ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 4JE
Received 21 Aug 202330A CHAPEL ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5BP
Received 21 Aug 2023348 HAWES SIDE LANE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5AL
Received 22 Aug 202324 PEDDERS LANE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 3HX
Received 22 Aug 202317 DAGGERS HALL LANE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 4AY
Received 21 Aug 2023LAND AT 19 SUSSEX ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY3 8HW
Received 21 Aug 2023BLACKPOOL TOWER, BANK HEY STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 4BJ
Received 23 Aug 2023431/433 Promenade
Received 8 Aug 199021 NORTH PARK DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 8LP
Received 22 Aug 2023176 QUEENS PROMENADE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 9JS
Received 23 Aug 20236 WOLVERTON AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 9NT
Received 23 Aug 2023CLIFF VIEW, ROBINS LANE, BLACKPOOL, FY6 7QN
Received 23 Aug 2023LAND BOUNDED BY CENTRAL DRIVE, NEW BONNY STREET, BONNY STREET, SEASIDERS WAY AND CHAPEL STREET , BLACKPOOL, FY1 5RL
Received 24 Aug 202335-39 ABINGDON STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 1DH
Received 24 Aug 202360 SEAFIELD ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 2LS
Received 24 Aug 20238 LANGDALE ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 4RT
Received 24 Aug 2023FORMER PIZZA HUT RESTAURANT, CORNELIAN WAY, BLACKPOOL, FY4 4NZ
Received 25 Aug 2023FORMER PIZZA HUT RESTAURANT, CORNELIAN WAY, BLACKPOOL, FY4 4NZ
Received 25 Aug 20231-5 WESTMORLAND AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY1 5LG
Received 2 Sept 198642 Hastings Avenue
Received 7 Aug 1990THE WHEELER HUB, UNIT 10, BRISTOL AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 0FH
Received 28 Aug 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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