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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35,641 approved · 6,879 refused · 1,187 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
ARMFIELD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL, 488A LYTHAM ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1TL
Received 11 Sept 2025561 LYTHAM ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1SA
Received 12 Sept 202510 PENNYSTONE ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY2 9HL
Received 12 Sept 20256/7 Cedar Square
Received 28 Sept 1990257 WATERLOO ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 3AA
Received 12 Sept 2025PARK SCHOOL, WHITEGATE DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 9HF
Received 15 Sept 202522 BEECH AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 9AY
Received 15 Sept 20252 CRESSWOOD AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY5 3NT
Received 15 Sept 20257 WILTON PARADE, BLACKPOOL, FY1 2HE
Received 17 Sept 2025101 Talbot Road
Received 28 Sept 1990ALL HALLOWS CHURCH, ALL HALLOWS ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY2 0AY
Received 17 Sept 202528 QUERNMORE AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 9SU
Received 22 Sept 2025LAND TO NORTH EAST OF BLACKPOOL NORTH TRAIN STATION CAR PARK, TALBOT ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 3EZ
Received 23 Sept 2025202 Common Edge Road
Received 27 Sept 1990LAND BOUNDED BY COOKSON STREET, MILBOURNE STREET, GROSVENOR STREET AND GEORGE STREET, BLACKPOOL
Received 23 Sept 20251 OAKGROVE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 2JR
Received 24 Sept 2025ANCHORSHOLME PRIMARY SCHOOL, EASTPINES DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY5 3RX
Received 24 Sept 2025LAND ADJACENT TO SYCAMORE, DIVISION LANE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 5DZ
Received 25 Sept 202550 BISPHAM ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY2 0SX
Received 25 Sept 2025187 READS AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY1 4HZ
Received 25 Sept 2025WHITEGATE MANOR, WHITEGATE DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY3 9AF
Received 25 Sept 2025Land At Gynn Square
Received 2 Oct 1990126 STONY HILL AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1PW
Received 26 Sept 20255 ALPIC DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY5 1QB
Received 29 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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