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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.
11,584 approved · 1,018 refused · 607 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 May 2013 to 14 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 19 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Building Themes International Office Suite 1 Units A and B Grove Park Industrial Estate The Green Eccleston Chorley PR7 5TZ
Received 14 Sept 2026Land At Junction Of Greenhalgh Lane And Babylon Lane Adlington
Received 14 Sept 2026Land To The West Side Of Blackburn Road Chorley
Received 14 Sept 2026Plot 2 Old Withnell Stables Trigg Lane Heapey Chorley PR6 9BZ
Received 14 Sept 202626 Waterford Close Heath Charnock Chorley PR6 9JQ
Received 15 Sept 20269 Spring Mews Whittle-le-woods Chorley PR6 8AS
Received 15 Sept 2026Inglenook Pompian Brow Bretherton Leyland PR26 9AQ
Received 15 Sept 2026Printing.com 11 St Georges Street Chorley PR7 2AA
Received 15 Sept 202615 Washington Lane Euxton Chorley PR7 6DE
Received 15 Sept 202612 Park Road Chorley PR7 1QN
Received 15 Sept 2026Formerly Mormon Church Water Street Chorley Lancashire PR7 1EE
Received 15 Sept 202611 St Georges Street Lancashire Chorley PR7 2AA
Received 15 Sept 202685 Wood Lane Heskin Chorley PR7 5NP
Received 17 Sept 202663-71 Jolly Tar Lane Coppull Chorley PR7 4BJ
Received 17 Sept 202621 Reeveswood Eccleston PR7 5RS
Received 17 Sept 2026Land South Of 1 Moss Terrace Moss Lane Whittle-le-woods Chorley PR6 8AB
Received 17 Sept 2026194 Spring Meadow Clayton-le-woods Leyland PR25 5PQ
Received 17 Sept 2026Walmsleys Barn Wood Lane Heskin Chorley PR7 5NP
Received 18 Sept 202611 Wigan Road Euxton Lancashire PR7 6LA
Received 17 Sept 2026Roselea Dawbers Lane Euxton Chorley PR7 6EW
Received 17 Sept 2026Outside Of 71 Princess Way Euxton Chorley PR7 6PL
Received 18 Sept 2026Earnshaw Shire Farm Ulnes Walton Lane Ulnes Walton Leyland PR26 8LT
Received 18 Sept 2026Land Adjcent Rossendale Drive Adlington PR6 9AB
Received 18 Sept 2026Riverslea Rivington Lane Anderton Chorley PR6 9HQ
Received 18 Sept 2026Records 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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