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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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
CLEVELEYS LIBRARY ROSSALL ROAD CLEVELEYS
Received 25 Mar 2009LYTHAM ST ANNES TECHNOLOGY AND PERFORMING ARTS COLLEGE WORSLEY ROAD LYTHAM ST ANNES
Received 15 Feb 2010TONACLIFFE PRIMARY SCHOOL TONACLIFFE ROAD WHITWORTH
Received 23 May 2011OVERTON PLAYING FIELDS OFF LANCASTER ROAD OVERTON
Received 16 Mar 2009FARINGTON MOSS RECYCLING CENTRE PARKER LANE OFF MOSS LANE LEYLAND
Received 25 Nov 2020UNIT 9 ST LAWRENCE MILL, MILL STREET, GREAT HARWOOD.
Received 19 Feb 2015CRAWSHAWBOOTH PRIMARY SCHOOL, BURNLEY ROAD, RAWTENSTALL
Received 29 Jul 2016East of Long Dales Lane, Dunald Mill Quarry, Nether Kellet
Received 1 Feb 2005JAMESON ROAD FLEETWOOD
Received 25 Aug 2008WITHNELL LANDFILL SITE BOLTON ROAD WITHNELL, NR CHORLEY
Received 4 Jul 2001WHINNEY HILL LANDFILL SITE, WHINNEY HILL ROAD, ALTHAM
Received 4 Feb 2019WADDINGTON FELL QUARRY, WADDINGTON.
Received 8 Apr 1976LAND TO SOUTH OF HARRISONS FARM, OLD SCHOOL LANE, ADLINGTON, CHORLEY
Received 6 Dec 2019ADLINGTON LIBRARY, RAILWAY ROAD, ADLINGTON
Received 4 Mar 2009HASLAM PARK OFF TOM BENSON WAY PRESTON
Received 5 Apr 2004LAND AT SIMONSWOOD, SIMONSWOOD INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, OFF STOPGATE LANE, KNOWSLEY
Received 19 May 2015FISHWICK PRIMARY SCHOOL, DOWING STREET, PRESTON
Received 8 Jun 2016INACTIVE LANDFILL SITE WITHIN HILLHOUSE BUSINESS PARK, LAND EAST OF FLEETWOOD ROAD, THORNTON-CLEVELEYS
Received 4 May 2012GREAT ARLEY SCHOOL HOLLY ROAD THORNTON CLEVELEYS
Received 7 Nov 2019WHITEMOSS LANDFILL SITE, WHITE MOSS ROAD SOUTH, SKELMERSDALE
Received 3 Dec 2015BELTHORN PRIMARY BELTHORN ROAD BLACKBURN
Received 2 May 2012BARNOLDSWICK WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS GREENBERFIELD LANE BARNOLDSWICK
Received 24 Nov 2003BANKFIELD QUARRY PIMLICO LINK ROAD CLITHEROE
Received 6 Aug 2007THE STAR YOUNG PEOPLES CENTRE, PRESTON
Received 16 Apr 2018Records 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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