Understanding planning · 13 min read
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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
PENWORTHAM GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL COP LANE PENWORTHAM PRESTON
Received 9 Jan 2008BACK LANE DALTON WIGAN RD (DINGLE QUARRY)
Received 6 Aug 1952Leapers Wood Quarry, Carnforth
Received 7 Jun 1974HASLINGDEN HIGH BROADWAY HASLINGDEN
Received 16 Feb 2011JAMESON ROAD FLEETWOOD
Received 6 Feb 2008STANWORTH QUARRY ADJACENT TO WITHNELL LANDFILL SITE BOLTON ROAD WITHNELL NR CHORLEY
Received 3 Jul 2003CLAYTON HALL LANDFILL, DAWSON LANE, CHORLEY
Received 27 Aug 2013STRIKE LANE PRIMARY SCHOOL STRIKE LANE FRECKLETON
Received 13 Aug 2010High Roads/Back Lane, Carnforth
Received 16 Jul 1948HIPPINGS METHODIST PRIMARY SCHOOL HERON WAY OSWALDTWISTLE
Received 9 Jun 2010POOL HOUSE PRIMARY SCHOOL KIDSGROVE TANTERTON INGOL
Received 1 Aug 2006JAMESON ROAD - NORTH EAST AREA
Received 3 Apr 2002CLAYTON HALL LANDFILL SITE DAWSON LANE WHITTLE LE WOODS
Received 13 Nov 2013Island Lane Winmarleigh
Received 23 Aug 200179 Queen Victoria Road Burnley
Received 4 Oct 2001WHITE MOSS HORTICULTURE, NORTH PERIMETER ROAD, KNOWSLEY INDUSTRIAL PARK, KIRKBY
Received 4 Jan 2017HOLLAND MOSS NIPE LANE SKELMERSDALE
Received 1 Jun 1978UNIT 8, BURN HALL INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, VENTURE ROAD, THORNTON CLEVELEYS
Received 15 Dec 2011BURNLEY HOUSEHOLD WASTE RECYCLING CENTRE GROSVENOR STREET BURNLEY
Received 26 Nov 2002Brundhurst Farm Preston New Road Mellor
Received 27 Dec 2001WITHNELL QUARRY BOLTON ROAD ABBEY VILLAGE NR CHORLEY
Received 9 Oct 1989FORMER PARK HOTEL COMPLEX, EAST CLIFF, PRESTON
Received 6 Jul 2020CLIFTON MARSH CHEMICAL STORE CLIFTON MARSH LANDFILL SITE LYTHAM ROAD FRECKLETON
Received 6 Jun 1996LEE ROYD NURSERY SCHOOL ROYDS STREET ACCRINGTON
Received 12 Oct 2007Records 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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