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.
7,332 approved · 710 refused · 386 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 May 2013 to 7 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
35 Bournes Row Brindle Preston PR5 0DR
Received 24 Jan 20227 Cedar Avenue Euxton Chorley PR7 6BB
Received 24 Jan 2022Land Off Washington Lane Euxton
Received 24 Jan 2022Croston Hall Estate Grape Lane Croston Leyland PR26 9HB
Received 24 Jan 2022Croston Cemetery Carr Lane Croston
Received 24 Jan 2022Euxton Mill Dawbers Lane Euxton
Received 24 Jan 202218 Coppice Close Chorley PR6 0ES
Received 24 Jan 202216 Coppice Close Chorley PR6 0ES
Received 24 Jan 2022O/S 28 The Crescent Chorley PR7 1PX
Received 25 Jan 2022Birch House Oram Road Brindle Chorley PR6 8NT
Received 25 Jan 202216 Chapel Street Chorley PR7 1BW
Received 25 Jan 202216 - 20 Chapel Street Chorley PR7 1BW
Received 25 Jan 2022Danryn Preston Road Charnock Richard Chorley PR7 5JZ
Received 25 Jan 20223 Badgers Walk Euxton Chorley PR7 6FH
Received 25 Jan 2022Chorley Old Road Whittle-Le-Woods
Received 26 Jan 2022Kirkstall Road Chorley
Received 26 Jan 2022Bungalow Filling Station 117 Moor Road Chorley PR7 2NU
Received 26 Jan 202244 Botany Brow Chorley PR6 0JW
Received 26 Jan 202257 Netherley Road Coppull Chorley PR7 5FA
Received 26 Jan 202284 Duxbury Manor Way Chorley PR7 3FJ
Received 26 Jan 2022138 Preston Road Whittle-Le-Woods Chorley PR6 7HE
Received 26 Jan 2022Broken Wheel Birkacre Road Chorley PR7 3QL
Received 27 Jan 2022The Barn Buckshaw Hall Knight Avenue Buckshaw Village Chorley PR7 7HW
Received 27 Jan 20228 Hampden Close Buckshaw Village Chorley PR7 7JZ
Received 27 Jan 2022Records 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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Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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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