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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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
ICI Pumping Station Back Lane Preesall
Received 16 Jul 1998FIELD ADJACENT TO BURSCOUGH WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS NEW LANE BURSCOUGH
Received 5 Jul 2007FOGGS FARM HOBBS LANE CLAUGHTON ON BROCK
Received 4 Jun 2020CLITHEROE WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS, LAND OFF HENTHORNE ROAD, CLITHEROE
Received 5 Jul 2017LYTHAM MOSS LYTHAM ST ANNES (M55 TO HEYHOUSES LINK)
Received 8 Nov 2010FORMER WASTE TRANSFER STATION SITE, OFF JAMESON ROAD, FLEETWOOD
Received 22 Feb 2016MCMILLAN NURSERY SCHOOL RAILWAY STREET NELSON
Received 27 Apr 2007Tor View School Clod Lane Haslingden
Received 29 Oct 1999HILLSIDE SPECIAL SCHOOL, RIBCHESTER ROAD, LONGRIDGE
Received 22 May 2013AGRICULTURAL LAND THAT FORMS PART OF PLUMPTON HALL FARM TO WEST OF THE FARM BUILDINGS, NORTH OF PRESTON NEW ROAD, OFF PRESTON NEW ROAD, LITTLE PLUMPTON, PRESTON
Received 14 Jun 2017UNIT 13 CENTURION INDUSTRIAL ESTATE CENTURION WAY LEYLAND
Received 5 Apr 2006HAWKSHAW FARM LONGSIGHT ROAD CLAYTON-LE-DALE
Received 25 Sept 2003CHORLEY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS, COMMON BANK LANE, CHORLEY
Received 25 Oct 2007Town Lane, Charnock Richard
Received 22 Mar 2007IMPERIAL ROAD, HEYSHAM
Received 19 Mar 2019Tulketh High School Tag Lane Ingol Preston
Received 3 Aug 2000INGOL COMMUNITY PRIMARY SCHOOL WHITBY AVENUE INGOL PRESTON
Received 24 Oct 2007QUEEN STREET MILL QUEEN STREET BURNLEY
Received 1 Feb 2008SOUTHLANDS HIGH SCHOOL CLOVER ROAD CHORLEY
Received 24 Nov 2011Tollgate Road Burscough Industrial Estate Burscough
Received 2 Nov 2001LAND TO THE REAR OF 48, MOOR FARM, SCHOOL LANE, DOWNHOLLAND
Received 2 Mar 2020LEE ROYD NURSERY SCHOOL, ROYD STREET, ACCRINGTON
Received 11 Aug 2016THE WOODLANDS CENTRE SOUTHPORT ROAD CHORLEY
Received 12 Jan 2007THE SPICE ROOM, BLACKBURN ROAD, ROSSENDALE
Received 23 Feb 2011Records 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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