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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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
COLNE PRIMET ACADEMY, DENT STREET, COLNE
Received 31 May 2022MIDDLEFORTH C OF E PRIMARY HILL ROAD SOUTH PENWORTHAM
Received 15 Jul 2010Banks Enclosed Marsh bonny barn farm Hundred End
Received 18 Jan 2002PENDLE MAIN BASE LAND BRTWEEN 289 AND 415 BURNLEY ROAD
Received 24 Sept 2007WALTON-LE-DALE PRIMARY SCHOOL SEVERN DRIVE WALTON-LE-DALE
Received 11 Jun 2021HAPTON VALLEY COLLIERY ACCRINGTON ROAD HAPTON BURNLEY
Received 10 Dec 2010NEWBRIDGE FARM STOPGATE LANE SIMONSWOOD
Received 6 Feb 2006HARDROCK QUARRY STONEY BROW UPHOLLAND
Received 15 Nov 2006LEYLAND WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS, EMNIE LANE, LEYLAND
Received 24 Aug 2011BOWGREAVE RISE, GARSTANG ROAD, BOWGREAVE, GARSTANG
Received 4 Oct 2021ROYLES BROOK HEYS STREET POULTON-LE-FYLDE
Received 16 Oct 2002CUERDEN CHURCH SCHOOL, STATION ROAD, BAMBER BRIDGE
Received 20 May 2014RIVERSIDE WASTE TRANSFER AND RECYCLING CENTRE JAMESON ROAD FLEETWOOD
Received 4 Sept 2014LAND OFF HOWICK CROSS LANE PENWORTHAM PRESTON
Received 3 Nov 2009RAWTENSTALL ALDER GRANGE HIGH SCHOOL CALDER ROAD OFF HOLLIN LANE RAWTENSTALL
Received 20 Mar 2003LAND AT A59/SAMLESBURY ENTERPRISE ZONE, SAMLESBURY.
Received 25 Sept 2013LCC HIGHWAYS LABORATORY CUERDEN MILL DEPOT BAMBER BRIDGE PRESTON
Received 23 Oct 2002JOHN ROBSON METALS LIMITED ASHLEY LANE STUMP CROSS GOOSNARGH
Received 2 Nov 2007VALPAK RECYCLING 45 - 49 ROUGH HEY ROAD INDUSTRIAL ESTATE PRESTON
Received 17 Sept 2007ST ANDREWS C OF E INFANT SCHOOL, WOODLEA ROAD, LEYLAND
Received 24 Nov 2014CHARLES SAER COMMUNITY PRIMARY SCHOOL GRANGE ROAD FLEETWOOD
Received 15 Sept 2005LYTHE BROW, QUERNMORE ROAD, QUERNMORE
Received 5 Aug 2015Off Ball Lane Artlebeck Caton
Received 24 Jan 2002WEST VIEW CHILDRENS CENTRE ROTHWELL DRIVE FLEETWOOD
Received 21 Sept 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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