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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
35,641 approved · 6,879 refused · 1,187 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Mar 1980 to 17 Oct 2028. Most recent record check: 31 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6A DEAN STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1AU
Received 1 Sept 2025LAND AT AMY JOHNSON WAY, BLACKPOOL, FY4 2FF
Received 3 Sept 2025421 BLACKPOOL OLD ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY3 7LT
Received 2 Sept 202524 BURWOOD DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 8NS
Received 3 Sept 2025LAND AT 58 COMMON EDGE ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5AU
Received 4 Sept 2025LAND BOUNDED BY COOKSON STREET, MILBOURNE STREET, GROSVENOR STREET AND GEORGE STREET BLACKPOOL
Received 4 Sept 20259 ABERCORN PLACE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1TG
Received 10 Sept 1986PRINCESS CINEMA, 168-170 PROMENADE, BLACKPOOL, FY1 1RE
Received 27 Sept 19903 POOLHILL CLOSE, BLACKPOOL, FY5 3HL
Received 4 Sept 2025BLACKPOOL & FYLDE COLLEGE, ASHFIELD ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY2 0HB
Received 4 Sept 20251 HERMON AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY5 3BL
Received 5 Sept 202522 DERBY ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 2JF
Received 5 Sept 202514 PIPER COURT, AMY JOHNSON WAY, BLACKPOOL, FY4 2RT
Received 4 Sept 2025ANCHORSHOLME PRIMARY SCHOOL, EASTPINES DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY5 3RX
Received 8 Sept 2025401-403 Promenade
Received 27 Sept 1990UNIT 1, RIGBY ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 5EP
Received 8 Sept 2025LAND AT CORNFORD ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 4QQ
Received 8 Sept 20258 BURGATE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 2QH
Received 8 Sept 2025UNIT 1, RIGBY ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 5EP
Received 9 Sept 202540 BOLTON STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 6AE
Received 10 Sept 202533 St Chads Road
Received 27 Sept 19906-8 CARLIN GATE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 9QX
Received 10 Sept 202595 EASTPINES DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY5 3RY
Received 10 Sept 202576 COLLYHURST AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 3NQ
Received 11 Sept 2025Records 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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