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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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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.
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Received 27 Aug 2004COP LANE C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL COP LANE PENWORTHAM
Received 27 Oct 2010PRIMROSE HILL PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMROSE HILL ROAD EUXTON CHORLEY
Received 8 Jul 2005LATHOM PARK C OF E SCHOOL, HALL LANE, LATHOM
Received 22 Jul 2021BURNLEY WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS WOOD END GREENWOOD LANE FENCE
Received 23 Feb 2004THE BRECK PRIMARY SCHOOL FOULDREY AVENUE POULTON LE FYLDE
Received 22 Apr 2005KIRKHAM AND WESHAM PRIMARY SCHOOL NELSON STREET KIRKHAM
Received 17 Jan 2003LORDS QUARRY FORTY ACRE LANE LONGRIDGE
Received 12 Sept 1988ST JAMES C OF E SCHOOL SCHOOL LANE WESTHEAD ORMSKIRK
Received 17 Jul 2009Longridge High School, Preston Road, Longridge
Received 6 Jul 2023SHERWOOD PRIMARY SCHOOL SHERWOOD WAY FULWOOD PRESTON
Received 10 Mar 2006LAND FORMING PART OF FORMER ICI BURN HALL SITE THORNTON CLEVELEYS
Received 13 Mar 2009ROUND O QUARRY COBBS BROW LANE LATHOM
Received 28 Jan 2014ELM TREE PRIMARY SCHOOL, ELMERS WOOD ROAD, SKELMERSDALE
Received 25 Apr 2017LYTHAM HALL PARK PRIMARY SCHOOL, SOUTH PARK, LYTHAM ST ANNES
Received 1 Mar 2013FORMER PARK HOTEL COMPLEX, EAST CLIFF, PRESTON.
Received 10 Nov 2016LAND FORMING PART OF THE FORMER ICI BURN HALL SITE THORNTON CLEVELEYS
Received 5 Jun 2007DALTON QUARRY/BRICKWORKS LEES LANE DALTON
Received 1 Jul 2008NORTH FORESHORE FLEETWOOD
Received 22 May 1952GREEN LANE MILL, STOCKBRIDGE ROAD, BURNLEY
Received 17 Dec 2013ORMSKIRK C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL, GREETBY HILL, ORMSKIRK
Received 27 Feb 2014PRIMET FOUNDRY, GREENFIELD ROAD, COLNE
Received 14 Aug 2015ST MARY MAGDALEN'S C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL DEVONSHIRE ROAD ACCRINGTON
Received 29 Mar 2004LANEHEAD QUARRY AND WORKS
Received 13 Nov 1998Records 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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