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.
7,358 approved · 711 refused · 388 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
47 South Road Bretherton Leyland PR26 9AJ
Received 17 Feb 202240 Empress Way Euxton Chorley PR7 6QB
Received 17 Feb 202261 Westhoughton Road Heath Charnock Chorley PR7 4ER
Received 17 Feb 202261 Westhoughton Road Heath Charnock Chorley PR7 4ER
Received 17 Feb 202215 Ashtrees Mawdesley Ormskirk L40 2RN
Received 17 Feb 202212 Chiltern Mews Chorley PR7 3TN
Received 18 Feb 2022Woodlands Woodhart Lane Eccleston Chorley PR7 5TB
Received 18 Feb 2022Collinwood 3 Harrington Road Chorley PR7 1JZ
Received 19 Feb 202253A Gorsey Lane Mawdesley Ormskirk L40 3TE
Received 20 Feb 202221 Linden Grove Chorley PR6 7BN
Received 20 Feb 2022Vacant Land Off Hill Top Lane Whittle-Le-Woods
Received 21 Feb 20221 Queens Road Chorley PR7 1JU
Received 17 Feb 20221B Out Lane Croston Leyland PR26 9HJ
Received 21 Feb 2022Hallsworth Fold Farm Long Lane Heath Charnock Chorley PR6 9EG
Received 22 Feb 2022Orange PCS Telecom Mast Site NO LAN0040 Huggarts Farm Denham Lane Brindle
Received 21 Feb 2022Land 120M South West Of 21 Lower Burgh Way Lower Burgh Way Chorley
Received 22 Feb 2022Scrap Yard Town Lane Charnock Richard Chorley PR7 5HQ
Received 22 Feb 2022Montbretia Ridley Lane Mawdesley Ormskirk L40 2RE
Received 22 Feb 2022Glyndale Wigan Lane Heath Charnock Chorley PR7 4DA
Received 22 Feb 2022Millers Barn Ulnes Walton Lane Ulnes Walton Leyland PR26 8LU
Received 22 Feb 2022Wright's Garden Centre New Lane Nurseries New Lane Eccleston Chorley PR7 6NB
Received 23 Feb 2022World Travel Holdings 112 - 114 Market Street Chorley PR7 2SL
Received 24 Feb 202217 Stansfield Drive Euxton Chorley PR7 6QH
Received 24 Feb 2022Land Adjacent To Londonderry Cottage Wigan Lane Heath Charnock
Received 24 Feb 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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