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 · 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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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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 OFF LODGE LANE SINGLETON
Received 7 Sept 200549 PITT STREET PRESTON
Received 3 Feb 2004HIGHFIELD FARM GHANTS LANE HAMBLETON
Received 16 Jul 2002BANKFIELD QUARRY PIMLICO LINK ROAD CLITHEROE
Received 14 Nov 1988CROW ORCHARD COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL SCHOOL LANE SKELMERSDALE
Received 6 Aug 2002WHITTLEFIELD PRIMARY SCHOOL TABOR STREET BURNLEY
Received 31 Mar 2010LYTHAM AND ST ANNES WASTE WATER PUMPING STATION GRAVING DOCK ROAD LYTHAM
Received 25 Mar 2010TULKETH HIGH SCHOOL TAG LANE PRESTON
Received 7 Aug 2007BALSHAW C E HIGH SCHOOL CHURCH ROAD LEYLAND
Received 8 Oct 2004PRESTON BUS STATION, TITHEBARN STREET, PRESTON.
Received 2 Nov 2016WHITTLE HILL QUARRY CHORLEY OLD ROAD WHITTLE-LE-WOODS CHORLEY
Received 19 Jul 1991BLACKBURN WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORK SAMLESBURY
Received 29 Mar 2004RIBBLESDALE HIGH SCHOOL ACCESS OFF LANGSHAW DRIVE CLITHEROE
Received 25 Jul 2006LAND AT DOCK ACRES CARNFORTH
Received 17 Mar 2003SOUTHLANDS HIGH SCHOOL CLOVER ROAD CHORLEY
Received 9 Jul 2010RHYDDINGS HIGH SCHOOL HAWORTH STREET OSWALDTWISTLE ACCRINGTON
Received 25 Jun 2003GERMAN LANE QUARRY GERMAN LANE CHARNOCK RICHARD CHORLEY
Received 1 Sept 1970BROADFIELD SCHOOL FIELDING LANE OSWALDTWISTLE
Received 5 Apr 2012ADJ TO BALLAM ROAD PUMPING STATION ST ANNES
Received 20 Jun 1997CHRIST THE KING RC PRIMARY SCHOOL CALDERBROOK AVENUE BURNLEY
Received 10 Jul 2012Whitefield County Primary School Whitefield Road Penwortham
Received 16 Nov 2001RAVENHEAD BRICKWORKS CHEQUER LANE UPHOLLAND
Received 7 Jun 1984LAND AT ANNAS ROAD WESTBY BLACKPOOL
Received 1 Sept 2010CASTERTON PRIMARY SCHOOL, THAMES AVENUE, BURNLEY
Received 30 May 2014Records 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 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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