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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.
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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.
8,535 approved · 821 refused · 436 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 May 2013 to 10 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Four Oaks Shawes Drive Anderton Chorley PR6 9HR
Received 4 Dec 20233 The Orchard Croston Leyland PR26 9HS
Received 1 Dec 202364 Duxbury Manor Way Chorley PR7 3FJ
Received 5 Dec 2023Land North Of Lancaster Lane And Bounded By Wigan Road And Shady Lane Lancaster Lane Clayton-Le-Woods
Received 5 Dec 2023Liptrot Farm Gilbertson Road Heath Charnock Chorley PR7 4DJ
Received 5 Dec 2023153 Chorley Road Adlington Chorley PR6 9LP
Received 5 Dec 2023Crabtree House Hill House Lane Brindle Chorley PR6 8NR
Received 5 Dec 2023Tan Pits Farm New Road Anderton Chorley PR6 9HG
Received 5 Dec 2023Adlington Cricket Club Meadow Street Adlington Chorley PR7 4HH
Received 5 Dec 202342 Pompian Brow Bretherton Leyland PR26 9AQ
Received 5 Dec 202336 Lancaster Close Adlington Chorley PR6 9RA
Received 5 Dec 2023KFC Unit 1 Munro Court Buckshaw Village Chorley PR7 7NH
Received 5 Dec 2023Land Adjacent To 2 Braeburn Crescent Braeburn Crescent Eccleston Chorley PR7 5FL
Received 5 Dec 202334 Lodge Bank Brinscall Chorley PR6 8QU
Received 5 Dec 2023Scrap Yard Town Lane Charnock Richard Chorley PR7 5HQ
Received 5 Dec 20235 Westfields Croston Leyland PR26 9RT
Received 5 Dec 202310 Tuson Lane Whittle-Le-Woods Chorley PR6 7FZ
Received 5 Dec 202354 Windsor Drive Brinscall Chorley PR6 8PX
Received 5 Dec 2023Brook House The Straits Hoghton Preston PR5 0DA
Received 6 Dec 202340 Chorley Lane Charnock Richard Chorley PR7 5ES
Received 7 Dec 202312 Gisburn Court Clayton-Le-Woods Leyland PR25 5AN
Received 7 Dec 2023Bramblewood Shaw Hill Whittle-Le-Woods Chorley PR6 7PP
Received 7 Dec 2023105 Foxglove Drive Whittle-Le-Woods Chorley PR6 7SG
Received 7 Dec 2023Heapey Fold Estate Higher House Lane Heapey Chorley PR6 9BU
Received 8 Dec 2023Records 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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