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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
34,629 approved · 6,548 refused · 1,181 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 17 Nov 1980 to 17 Oct 2028. Most recent record check: 30 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
166 Lindale Gardens
Received 18 Sept 1990235 PROMENADE, BLACKPOOL, FY1 6AH
Received 29 May 2024LAND BOUNDED BY EAST TOPPING STREET, COOKESON STREET, KING STREET AND DEANSGATE BLACKPOOL
Received 30 May 2024LAND ADJACENT 14 STRATHDALE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5BB
Received 30 May 2024109-115 ARGOSY AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 7NG
Received 30 May 2024UNITS 1, 2 & 3 STATION VIEW, TALBOT ROAD, BLACKPOOL
Received 30 May 2024Land At Sixth Avenue
Received 28 Aug 199061 NORTH PARK DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 8NH
Received 4 Jun 202416-18 TALBOT ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 1LF
Received 4 Jun 20246 HIGHBURY AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 7DL
Received 4 Jun 2024LEAMINGTON HOUSE NURSERIES, WORTHINGTON ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5EH
Received 4 Jun 20241 MILLOM AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 9LY
Received 7 Jun 202489-95 CHURCH STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 1HU
Received 7 Jun 202489-95 CHURCH STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 1HU
Received 7 Jun 202412 PALATINE ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 4BT
Received 7 Jun 202459 Wasdale Road
Received 28 Aug 1990FORMER BISPHAM HIGH SCHOOL, BISPHAM ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY2 0NH
Received 7 Jun 20246 HIGH STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 2BL
Received 7 Jun 202431 ST LUKES ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 2EL
Received 10 Jun 2024WESTMINSTER PRIMARY ACADEMY, WESTMINSTER ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 2QE
Received 10 Jun 2024LAND BOUND BY ADELAIDE STREET, LEOPOLD GROVE AND ALFRED ST, BLACKPOOL.
Received 7 Jun 2024PALATINE LIBRARY, 207 ST ANNES ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 2AP
Received 11 Jun 2024FORMER UNITED REFORMED CHURCH HALL, WARBRECK DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 9JR
Received 17 Jun 2024GREYSTONES, SANDON PLACE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 2PU
Received 17 Jun 2024Records 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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