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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 · County council
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Lancashire County Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 27 Nov 1946 to 30 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 11 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
A boundary map is not available for this authority yet. Use council conservation-area and Article 4 guidance above where linked.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
LAND AT DOCK ACRES CARNFORTH
Received 17 Mar 2003HILLHOUSE WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS WOOD LANE ALTCAR
Received 10 Jul 2003FULWOOD HIGH SCHOOL BLACK BULL LANE FULWOOD
Received 22 Jul 2003WATER CP SCHOOL, BURNLEY ROAD EAST, ROSSENDALE
Received 29 Nov 2012HAWKSHAW FARM LONGSIGHT ROAD CLAYTON-LE-DALE
Received 1 Sept 2004NETHER KELLET PRIMARY SCHOOL, BRIDGE ROAD, NETHER KELLET
Received 6 Mar 2015PINGWOOD LANE SIMONSWOOD KIRKBY
Received 4 Jul 2005FISHERIES AT CRANE HALL BARN ESTATE, RAWCLIFFE ROAD, ST MICHAELS-ON-WYRE
Received 16 Jun 2021HOLY SAVIOUR RC INFANT SCHOOL OFF HOLLAND PLACE REEDYFORD ROAD NELSON
Received 22 Oct 2002NEWBURGH C OF E PRIMARY BACK LANE NEWBURGH
Received 10 Oct 2008JAMESON ROAD LANDFILL SITE JAMESON ROAD FLEETWOOD
Received 9 Jun 2003ASTLEY PARK SCHOOL HARRINGTON ROAD CHORLEY
Received 26 Apr 2005TROWBARROW QUARRY MOSS LANE SILVERDALE
Received 19 Sept 1996EARBY WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS OLD LANE EARBY
Received 24 Aug 2011GARSTANG HOUSE FARM, CHAPEL LANE, HEAPEY
Received 2 May 2017BARROWFORD COMMUNITY PRIMARY SCHOOL RUSHTON STREET BARROWFORD NELSON
Received 3 Jan 2007PRESTON BUS STATION, TITHEBARN STREET, PRESTON.
Received 27 Jun 2016LAND AT RED SCAR INDUSTRIAL ESTATE
Received 4 Sept 2020LOWER BURGH, BIRKACRE, CHORLEY
Received 14 Dec 1953FORMER NIPA LABORATORIES SITE, NOOK LANE, OSWALDTWISTLE
Received 10 Aug 2015CLIFTON MARSH LANDFILL SITE LYTHAM ROAD FRECKLETON
Received 7 Mar 2001Victrex Plant, Hillhouse International Works, Fleetwood Road North, Thornton-Cleveleys
Received 13 Sept 2022CHARLES LANE/ PRINNEY HILL ROAD
Received 20 Nov 1973CUERDEN STRATEGIC SITE, EAST OF STANIFIELD LANE, NORTH OF CLAYTON FARM, WEST OF WIGAN ROAD, LOSTOCK LANE, LOSTOCK HALL
Received 2 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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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Lancashire County 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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