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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.
6,784 approved · 661 refused · 350 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
65 Collingwood Road Chorley PR7 2PN
Received 24 Dec 2020Land 70 Metres East Of Harbour Barn Harbour Lane Wheelton
Received 25 Dec 2020West Pennine Insurance Group 58 Pall Mall Chorley PR7 2LE
Received 27 Dec 20209 Alpine Road Chorley PR6 8TW
Received 28 Dec 2020Land Adjacent Blainscough Hall Blainscough Lane Coppull
Received 30 Dec 20209 Crawford Avenue Chorley PR7 2QT
Received 30 Dec 2020Land 15M North Of 1 Elm Cottage Pompian Brow Bretherton
Received 23 Dec 202031 Preston Road Coppull Chorley PR7 5HS
Received 23 Dec 2020Pippin Fold Pippin Street Brindle Chorley PR6 8ND
Received 23 Dec 2020The Shippon Pike Lowe Brinscall Chorley PR6 8SR
Received 4 Jan 2021102 Wigan Road Euxton Chorley PR7 6JT
Received 29 Dec 2020Euxton Mill Dawbers Lane Euxton
Received 30 Dec 2020212 Babylon Lane Heath Charnock Chorley PR6 9ES
Received 5 Jan 2021Mayfield Blue Stone Lane Mawdesley Ormskirk L40 2RH
Received 6 Jan 2021The Boars Head Blackburn Old Road Hoghton Preston PR5 0RX
Received 7 Jan 2021HM Prison Garth Moss Lane Ulnes Walton Leyland PR26 8NE
Received 7 Jan 2021Group Of Trees To The Rear Of Barrow Nook Grove Adlington
Received 7 Jan 2021Hilltop Moulden Brow Feniscowles Hoghton Blackburn BB2 5JB
Received 8 Jan 2021Fairport Engineering Adlington Mill Market Place Adlington Chorley PR7 4EZ
Received 8 Jan 2021Pike View Farm New Road Anderton Chorley PR6 9HG
Received 8 Jan 2021Amelie's Restaurant 311 Preston Road Coppull Chorley PR7 5DU
Received 8 Jan 202111 Preston Road Whittle-Le-Woods Chorley PR6 7PE
Received 9 Jan 202154 Regent Road Chorley PR7 2TL
Received 9 Jan 2021Grosvenor Partners 59 Chapel Street Chorley PR7 1BU
Received 10 Jan 2021Records 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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