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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
INGOL PRIMARY SCHOOL WHITBY AVENUE INGOL PRESTON
Received 22 Jul 2003UNIT 9 LUNE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE LANCASTER LANCASHIRE
Received 6 Jun 2007ICI's BRINEFIELD AT STALMINE PREESALL
Received 20 May 1985UNITS 116 TO 118, CLYDESDALE PLACE, MOSS SIDE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, LEYLAND
Received 15 Jun 2017CATON COMMUNITY PRIMARY SCHOOL BROADACRE CATON
Received 27 Jun 2006BACUP AND RAWTENSTALL GRAMMAR SCHOOL GLEN ROAD WATERFOOT
Received 13 Dec 2005CARR HEAD CP SCHOOL, CARR HEAD LANE, POULTON-LE-FYLDE
Received 11 May 2011STANWORTH QUARRY, BOLTON ROAD, WITHNELL
Received 15 Jan 1971BLACKBURN WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS SAMELSBURY
Received 2 Jul 2003GREAT ARLEY SCHOOL, GREAT ARLEY SCHOOL, HOLLY ROAD, THORNTON-CLEVELEYS
Received 1 May 2014WOODFIELD NURSERY SEFTON STREET BRIERFIELD NELSON
Received 22 Oct 2003FULWOOD ACADEMY BLACK BULL LANE FULWOOD PRESTON
Received 27 Sept 2010RED MARSH SCHOOL HOLLY ROAD THORNTON CLEVELEYS
Received 5 Jun 2002BURNLEY CAMPUS, BARDEN LANE, BURNLEY
Received 27 Jul 2016WEST END PRIMARY SCHOOL CHATSWORTH ROAD MORECAMBE
Received 29 May 2007STANWORTH QUARRY BOLTON ROAD WITHNELL
Received 9 Sept 2003LAND WEST OF DUNKENHALGH WAY AND NORTH OF THE LEEDS LIVERPOOL CANAL CHURCH ACCRINGTON
Received 23 Nov 2010St James CE Primary School Playing Field School Lane Westhead
Received 8 Aug 2001BROADWAY PRIMARY SCHOOL BROADWAY HASLINGDEN
Received 18 Nov 2002CARPARK BOUNDED BY ACCRINGTON TRAIN STATION AND EAGLE STREET ACCRINGTON
Received 31 Mar 2008BACK LANE QUARRY, NETHER KELLET, CARNFORTH
Received 21 Jan 2014TOR VIEW SCHOOL, EWOOD CAMPUS, CLOD LANE, HASLINGDEN.
Received 13 Mar 2018THE WOODLANDS CENTRE SOUTHPORT ROAD CHORLEY
Received 1 Apr 2009BANKFIELD QUARRY, CLITHEROE
Received 8 Dec 2017Records 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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