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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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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LAND ADJACENT TO 217 GARSTANG ROAD FULWOOD PRESTON
Received 3 Jan 2012RAKEHEAD LANDFILL SITE RAKEHEAD LANE BACUP
Received 27 Apr 2005RIBBLETON AVENUE METHODIST JUNIOR SCHOOL EMERSON ROAD PRESTON
Received 25 Mar 2005FORMER PARBOLD HILL QUARRY PARBOLD HILL PARBOLD
Received 15 Apr 2019ACCRINGTON DIVISIONAL LIBRARY ST JAMES' STREET ACCRINGTON
Received 5 Dec 2003ULNES WALTON LANDFILL SITE, RIDLEY LANE, ULNES WALTON
Received 23 Oct 2014CRAWFORD PRIMARY SCHOOL, CRAWFORD VILLAGE, SKELMERSDALE.
Received 6 Nov 2013TRAWDEN LIBRARY/RIVERSIDE CHILDRENS CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, TRAWDEN, COLNE
Received 6 Sept 2010BARROW PRIMARY SCHOOL, OLD ROW, BAROW, CLITHEROE
Received 3 Aug 2010TWIST HILL/DELF HILL QUARRY BRIERCLIFFE BURNLEY
Received 4 Sept 1981WHITE LUND DEPOT WHITE LUND ROAD MORECAMBE
Received 15 Oct 2012LANCASTER ROAD COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL, LANCASTER ROAD, MORECAMBE
Received 8 Sept 2015UNIT 12 RIVERSIDE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, HERMITAGE STREET, RISHTON
Received 12 Mar 2019BOWERHAM PRIMARY SCHOOL, BOWERHAM ROAD, LANCASTER
Received 5 Dec 2012Moorbrook School, Ainslie Road, Preston, PR2 3DB
Received 21 Jan 2026TRS TYRES LTD WHITEGATE WHITE LUND MORECAMBE
Received 11 Apr 2006THORNTON PRIMARY, HEYS STREET, THORNTON
Received 18 Jun 2010OPPOSITE ROSEBANK AT THE JUNCTION OF SMALLWOOD HEY ROAD AND SHAW'S LANE PILLING
Received 4 Feb 2008UNIT 6 HIGHGATE, TARLETON.
Received 29 Aug 2013PLAYING FIELDS OFF LANGSHAW DRIVE CLITHEROE
Received 1 Oct 20022000 SQUARE METRES OF LAND ADJACENT TO HEYS LANE IND EST GREAT HARWOOD
Received 7 Nov 1990WHITE CROSS INDUSTRIAL ESTATE SOUTH ROAD LANCASTER
Received 8 Sept 2005UNIT 1 SOUTH FORGE BROCK PRESTON
Received 19 Feb 2004EXCHANGE STREET ACCRINGTON Springhill school
Received 5 Mar 2003Records 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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