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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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
HILLHOUSE WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS WOOD LANE LIVERPOOL
Received 17 Jul 2009WALTON HIGH SCHOOL OXFORD ROAD PENDLE
Received 11 Jul 2007D16 RED SCAR INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, LONGRIDGE ROAD, PRESTON
Received 11 Sept 2017WHITEFIELD NURSERY UNIT NORFOLK STREET NELSON
Received 28 Jul 2004UNIT 14 HEYSHAM INDUSTRIAL EST MIDDLETON MORECAMBE
Received 13 Jan 1987PADIHAM GREEN C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL, ST ANNES STREET, PADIHAM
Received 1 Aug 2017DUKE STREET PRIMARY DUKE STREET CHORLEY
Received 3 Nov 2008LYTHAM ST ANNES TECHNOLOGY AND PERFORMING ARTS COLLEGE WORSLEY ROAD LYTHAM ST ANNES
Received 23 Jun 2011MOORSIDE COMMUNITY PRIMARY SCHOOL, BACK LANE, HOLLAND MOOR, SKELMERSDALE
Received 14 Nov 2013OFF GARSTANG ROAD A586(SOUTH ACCESS) POULTON-LE-FYLDE
Received 6 Jun 2002A582 SOUTH RIBBLE WESTERN DISTRIBUTOR
Received 9 Dec 2013FORMER R.O.F. SITE, EUXTON LANE, CHORLEY
Received 4 Mar 2008RIBBLESDALE HIGH SCHOOL, QUEENS ROAD, CLITHEROE
Received 4 Feb 2019LANCASTER LANE COMMUNITY PRIMARY SCHOOL HUNTERS ROAD CLAYTON LE WOODS
Received 16 Jun 2006HEYSHAM M6 LINK
Received 15 Sept 2014ALBERT MILL EVEREST WORKS VICTORIA STREET ACCRINGTON
Received 22 Jul 2011BALLADEN CHILDRENS CENTRE BALLADEN PRIMARY SCHOOL LINDEN LEA RAWTENSTALL
Received 28 Jul 2010STARS BROOK SEPTIC TANK PRESTON ROAD COPPULL MOOR CHORLEY
Received 10 Aug 2006WITHNELL LANDFILL SITE BOLTON ROAD WITHNELL NR CHORLEY
Received 28 Apr 2006ROWLEY LANDFILL SITE - WHOLE SITE
Received 2 Feb 1998MORECAMBE ROAD SCHOOL, MORECAMBE ROAD, MORECAMBE
Received 21 Sept 2021CARR HILL HIGH SCHOOL ROYAL AVENUE KIRKHAM
Received 26 Jul 2002SCOUT MOOR QUARRY
Received 3 May 2007HILLHOUSE WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS WOOD LANE LIVERPOOL
Received 27 Jan 2010Records 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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