Understanding planning · 13 min read
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.
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Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Chorley Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
6,613 approved · 646 refused · 336 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
119 Bolton Road Anderton Chorley PR6 9HS
Received 7 Oct 2020Rivington Village Club Horrobin Lane Rivington Bolton BL6 7SE
Received 8 Oct 2020The Barn Drinkwater Farm Windsor Drive Brinscall Chorley PR6 8PX
Received 8 Oct 202035 Ordnance Road Buckshaw Village Chorley PR7 7JF
Received 8 Oct 20203 Gleneagles Drive Euxton Chorley PR7 6FZ
Received 8 Oct 2020Woods Fold Saw Mill Dole Lane Abbey Village Chorley PR6 8EB
Received 9 Oct 2020236 The Green Eccleston Chorley PR7 5SU
Received 9 Oct 20209 Lancers Close Buckshaw Village Chorley PR7 7DJ
Received 9 Oct 2020Land To The Rear Of 33 Washington Lane Euxton
Received 9 Oct 202012 Poppy Avenue Chorley PR6 0JZ
Received 10 Oct 2020Fox Field Kem Mill Lane Whittle-Le-Woods Chorley PR6 7DZ
Received 11 Oct 2020Flat Boundary Farm Wood Lane Mawdesley Ormskirk L40 2RL
Received 12 Oct 202014 Olde Stoneheath Court Heath Charnock Chorley PR6 9EH
Received 12 Oct 20202 Melrose Gardens Croston Leyland PR26 9HR
Received 12 Oct 2020Green Bank House Wigan Road Clayton-Le-Woods Leyland PR25 5SB
Received 12 Oct 2020Unit 2 & 3 Market Walk Extension Union Street Chorley PR7 1FD
Received 12 Oct 202025 Hornby Close Adlington Chorley PR6 9FT
Received 12 Oct 2020Gorse Villa 43 Gorsey Lane Mawdesley Ormskirk L40 3TE
Received 12 Oct 20209 Hillside Crescent Whittle-Le-Woods Chorley PR6 7LU
Received 12 Oct 2020Land At Tincklers Lane Tincklers Lane Eccleston
Received 13 Oct 2020Land Adjacent To 37 Back Lane Clayton-Le-Woods
Received 13 Oct 2020Roecroft Farmhouse Ulnes Walton Lane Ulnes Walton Leyland PR26 8LT
Received 13 Oct 2020Land Adjacent Dolphin Rise Millstone Close Whittle-Le-Woods
Received 13 Oct 202058 Highfield Road South Chorley PR7 1RH
Received 13 Oct 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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