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.
England · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Chorley Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
6,758 approved · 656 refused · 347 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 May 2013 to 7 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
White Coppice Nursery White Coppice Anglezarke Chorley PR6 9DE
Received 11 Dec 2020Church Farm High Street Mawdesley Ormskirk L40 3TD
Received 14 Dec 2020Land And Buildings Euxton Lane Euxton Chorley PR7 1PQ
Received 14 Dec 2020Land 75M South East Of 33 Town Lane Whittle-Le-Woods
Received 14 Dec 2020Land Off Heapey Road Heapey
Received 14 Dec 20203 The Wold Heapey Chorley PR6 9AP
Received 14 Dec 202038 Sandringham Drive Brinscall Chorley PR6 8SU
Received 14 Dec 2020Heatherdale Quaker Brook Lane Hoghton Preston PR5 0JA
Received 15 Dec 2020Lowes Tenement Farm Burgh Lane Coppull Chorley PR7 3PY
Received 15 Dec 2020Land At Market Street Part Of Adlington South Business Park Huyton Road Adlington
Received 16 Dec 2020Lowes Tenement Farm Burgh Lane Coppull Chorley PR7 3PY
Received 16 Dec 202072 Bolton Road Chorley PR7 3ET
Received 16 Dec 2020Camelot Theme Park Park Hall Road Charnock Richard Chorley PR7 5LP
Received 16 Dec 2020Roscoe Lowe Barn New Road Anderton Chorley PR6 9HG
Received 16 Dec 202013 Harrington Road Chorley PR7 1JZ
Received 17 Dec 2020Brook House Hotel 662 Preston Road Clayton-Le-Woods Chorley PR6 7EH
Received 17 Dec 2020Tower View 124 School Lane Brinscall Chorley PR6 8JP
Received 17 Dec 202076A Railway Road Adlington Chorley PR6 9RB
Received 18 Dec 2020Field Off Wood Lane Mawdesley
Received 18 Dec 2020Fleetwood Farm North Road Bretherton Leyland PR26 9AY
Received 18 Dec 2020108 Spendmore Lane Coppull Chorley PR7 4PX
Received 18 Dec 202010 The Warings Heskin Chorley PR7 5NZ
Received 18 Dec 2020274 Babylon Lane Heath Charnock Chorley PR6 9ER
Received 20 Dec 2020Lowe Fold Farm Coppice Lane Heapey Chorley PR6 9DD
Received 20 Dec 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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