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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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Chorley Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
6,441 approved · 631 refused · 325 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 May 2013 to 7 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
64 Brown Street Chorley PR6 0BA
Received 20 Jul 20209 Bridge Mill Court Chorley PR6 9DU
Received 20 Jul 202029 Millfield Road Chorley PR7 1RF
Received 20 Jul 202022 Spennymoor Close Buckshaw Village Chorley PR7 7GL
Received 21 Jul 2020The Old Barn Top O'Th' Lane Brindle Chorley PR6 8PA
Received 21 Jul 2020Land Adjacent Gillett Playing Fields Weavers Brow Heath Charnock
Received 21 Jul 202010 Church Walk Euxton Chorley PR7 6HL
Received 21 Jul 2020Maternity Ward Chorley And South Ribble District General Hospital Preston Road Chorley PR7 1PP
Received 21 Jul 2020Whittle-Le-Woods And Clayton-Le-Woods Parish Club 239 Preston Road Clayton-Le-Woods Chorley PR6 7PY
Received 22 Jul 20205 Railway View Croston Leyland PR26 9RY
Received 22 Jul 20206 Railway View Croston Leyland PR26 9RY
Received 22 Jul 202049 Halifax Drive Buckshaw Village Chorley PR7 7LN
Received 22 Jul 2020Lydiate Farm Cottage Lydiate Lane Eccleston Chorley PR7 6LX
Received 22 Jul 2020Nuns Cottage Gib Lane Hoghton Preston PR5 0RS
Received 22 Jul 202035 Tarnbeck Drive Mawdesley Ormskirk L40 2RU
Received 22 Jul 2020The Barn Lodge Bank Brinscall Chorley PR6 8QU
Received 22 Jul 202046 Church Street Adlington Chorley PR7 4EX
Received 22 Jul 202021 Balmoral Drive Brinscall Chorley PR6 8ST
Received 23 Jul 2020Quarrybeck Farm Bolton Road Withnell Preston PR5 0SP
Received 23 Jul 2020Eccleston Hall Lydiate Lane Eccleston Chorley PR7 6LY
Received 23 Jul 2020216 Chorley Lane Charnock Richard Chorley PR7 5HE
Received 23 Jul 2020Harrock View 55 Doctors Lane Eccleston Chorley PR7 5QZ
Received 23 Jul 202034 Petunia Close Clayton-Le-Woods Leyland PR25 5RE
Received 23 Jul 2020Springfield View Ridley Lane Mawdesley Ormskirk L40 2RF
Received 24 Jul 2020Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart 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 Chorley 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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