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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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
ORMSKIRK YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE, GRIMSHAW LANE, ORMSKIRK
Received 12 Jun 2017Croston Road Junction - A582, Farington Moss, Preston
Received 26 Feb 2025JAMESON ROAD LANDFILL SITE, JAMESON ROAD, FLEETWOOD
Received 22 Sept 2021PINGWOOD LANE SIMONSWOOD INDUSTRIAL PARK KIRKBY
Received 28 Nov 2005HIGHFIELD NURSERY SCHOOL WRIGHT STREET CHORLEY
Received 13 Jan 2003LEYLAND LIBRARY LANCASTERGATE LEYLAND
Received 27 Feb 2003SPRINGFIELD FUELS LTD COMPLEX SALWICK
Received 25 Sept 2009CARNFORTH HIGH SCHOOL KELLET ROAD CARNFORTH
Received 16 Aug 2004LANCASTER MUSEUM, MARKET SQUARE, LANCASTER
Received 23 Jun 2020UNIT 1 SOUTH FORGE BROCK PRESTON
Received 9 Nov 2004WHITWORTH QUARRY COMPLEX (BRITANNIA FACIT AND LEE QUARRIES)
Received 3 Aug 2010LAND TO THE SOUTH WEST OF CHORLEY WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS, COMMON BANK LANE, CHORLEY
Received 24 Oct 2016GISBURN COTES FARM GISBURN
Received 25 Sept 2003LAND ALONG RIVER RIBBLE AND RIVER DARWEN, AT BROADGATE AND RIVERSWAY (RIBBLE) LOWER PENWORTHAM (RIBBLE) FRENCHWOOD AND WALTON-LE-DALE (RIBBLE) WALTON-LE-DALE (DARWEN) AND HIGHER WALTON (RIBBLE)
Received 5 Feb 2020RED MARSH SCHOOL HOLLY ROAD THORNTON CLEVELEYS
Received 23 Oct 2009Wilpshire Wastewater Treatment Works, Ribchester Road, Wilpshire, BB1 9HQ
Received 28 Mar 2024BROADWAY PRIMARY SCHOOL BROADWAY HASLINGDEN
Received 6 Apr 2005ELLEL CRAG QUARRY, BAY HORSE ROAD, GALGATE, LANCASTER
Received 4 Jan 2016LAND SOUTH OF A6177 HOLDEN MILL HASLINGDEN
Received 4 Apr 2006CRAWSHAWBOOTH PRIMARY SCHOOL, BURNLEY ROAD, RAWTENSTALL
Received 24 Jan 2018TRAVELCARE VEHICLE DEPOT, STATION ROAD, RUFFORD.
Received 19 Aug 2013FISHWICK PRIMARY SCHOOL, DOWNING STREET, PRESTON.
Received 24 Jul 2014AGRICULTURAL 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 13 Oct 2017THE ORCHARD SNAPEWOOD LANE CABUS
Received 30 Nov 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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