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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
39,413 approved · 8,008 refused · 1,216 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 10 Mar 1908 to 17 Oct 2028. Most recent record check: 3 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
56 Springfield Road
Received 4 Feb 19928 Leeds Road
Received 3 Feb 1992Land Rear Of 71 Moss House Road
Received 16 Oct 1986440 Talbot Road
Received 3 Feb 199263 Mossom Lane
Received 4 Feb 19927 Westcliffe Drive
Received 5 Feb 199213 Landseer Avenue
Received 3 Feb 199250-50a Coronation Street
Received 5 Feb 1992CORAL ISLAND, 1-23 PROMENADE, BLACKPOOL, FY1 4TQ
Received 5 Feb 199231 Seventh Avenue
Received 6 Feb 199236 Grizedale Road
Received 5 Feb 199267-73 Promenade
Received 6 Feb 199273 Willowbank Avenue
Received 7 Feb 1992Manchester Square Pumping Station, Promenade
Received 23 Feb 199615 SQUIRES GATE LANE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1SN
Received 12 Oct 1986TIBERIUS CASINO, STATION ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1EU
Received 7 Feb 1992126 Palatine Road
Received 7 Feb 1992Rear 2-12 Collingwood Avenue
Received 7 Feb 1992Land Adjacent To 53/55 Clifton Drive
Received 10 Feb 1992Land At Mansfield Road
Received 10 Feb 1992361 St Annes Road
Received 11 Feb 199227 Livingstone Road
Received 11 Feb 199216 Clifford Road
Received 11 Feb 1992NORTH PIER, PROMENADE, BLACKPOOL, FY1 1NE
Received 12 Feb 1992Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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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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