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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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
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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.
LEE ROYD NURSERY SCHOOL ROYDS STREET ACCRINGTON
Received 14 Jun 2006THE LOYNE SCHOOL SEFTON DRIVE LANCASTER
Received 7 Nov 2007WESTGATE CP SCHOOL, LANGRIDGE WAY, MORECAMBE
Received 26 Mar 2013HALTON EAST WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS, DENNYBECK LANE, HALTON
Received 30 Jun 2016RIBBLESDALE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL, QUEENS ROAD, CLITHEROE
Received 15 Jun 2021LANCASTER WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS STODDAY NEAR LANCASTER
Received 30 Mar 2004WATERFOOT PRIMARY SCHOOL, WOLFENDEN GREEN, WATERFOOT, ROSSENDALE
Received 15 May 2019HASLINGDEN PRIMARY SCHOOL, RYEFIELD AVENUE, HASLINGDEN, ROSSENDALE
Received 22 Sept 2015GRANGE HILL EXPLORATION SITE, OFF GRANGE ROAD, SINGLETON, POULTON LE FYLDE
Received 14 Feb 2019YEALAND C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL FOOTERAN LANE YEALNAD REDMAYNE CARNFORTH
Received 25 Feb 2005HILLSIDE SPECIAL SCHOOL RIBCHESTER ROAD LONGRIDGE
Received 9 May 2009BRADLEY PIT LIGHTFOOT GREEN LANE PRESTON
Received 10 Jul 2003WORDSWORTH TERRACE GROUP HOME 52 WORDSWORTH TERRACE CHORLEY
Received 24 Feb 2004LAND IN LEA, COTTAM AND BARTLE AND TO THE WEST AND NORTH OF THE EXISTING BUILT UP AREA OF PRESTON.
Received 23 Apr 2019LAND AT MOORFIELD DRIVE MOORFIELD INDUSTRIAL ESTATE ALTHAM
Received 28 Sept 2010STANWORTH QUARRY, ABBY VILLAGE
Received 17 Dec 1946JUNCTION OF ST GEORGES AND HAREWOOD ROAD PRESTON
Received 6 Jan 2011MOORHEAD HIGH SCHOOL CROMWELL AVENUE ACCRINGTON
Received 26 Jun 2002NORTH CLIFFE BUILDING BLACKBURN OLD ROAD GREAT HARWOOD
Received 6 Oct 2020LONG HEYS LANE, DALTON
Received 27 Jan 1961HEYSHAM LIBRARY HEYSHAM ROAD HEYSHAM MORECAMBE
Received 18 Jan 2008LAND TO NORTH AND WEST OF EXISTING BLACKBURN WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS SPRING LANE SAMLESBURY
Received 28 Jun 2013LAND WITHIN THE GROUNDS OF SACRED HEART RC PRIMARY SCHOOL ON THE CORMER OF TRUNNAH ROAD AND HEYS STREET
Received 5 Aug 2002WITHNELL QUARRY BOLTON ROAD ABBEY VILLAGE NR CHORLEY
Received 6 Oct 1988Records 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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