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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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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.
16 MARINE ROAD WEST MORECAMBE
Received 18 Jan 2008FLEETWOOD WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS, JAMESON ROAD, FLEETWOOD
Received 14 Oct 2013RED MARSH SCHOOL HOLLY ROAD THORNTON CLEVELEYS
Received 25 Aug 2010WIGAN WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS DEANS LANE LATHOM ORMSKIRK
Received 1 Feb 2010BLEASEDALE HOUSE SCHOOL, EMESGATE LANE, SILVERDALE
Received 19 May 2014HEAD START COUNTY HALL CRECHE BOW LANE PRESTON
Received 16 Dec 2003BROADGATE, RIVERSIDE AND RIVERSIDE ROAD PRESTON
Received 14 Sept 20211-5 CARR STREET PRESTON
Received 28 Feb 2005BROCKHOLES NATURE RESERVE PRESTON NEW ROAD SAMLESBURY
Received 25 Sept 2012BICKERSTAFFE C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL HALL LANE BICKERSTAFFE ORMSKIRK
Received 29 Oct 2010HILLAM LANE FARM, HILLAM LANE, COCKERHAM, LANCASTER
Received 7 Nov 2016BAINES ENDOWED PRIMARY SCHOOL STATION ROAD THORNTON CLEVELEYS
Received 27 May 2002PLOT 3.4/BUILDING 2 LANCASHIRE BUSINESS PARK ENTERPRISE DRIVE LEYLAND
Received 30 Apr 2020HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL, MYLES STANDISH WAY, CHORLEY
Received 17 Nov 2016CASTERCLIFFE PRIMARY ACADEMY, MARSDEN HALL ROAD, NORTH NELSON
Received 4 Aug 2021HOPE HIGH SCHOOL CARFIELD CLAY BROW SKELMERSDALE
Received 2 Dec 2011MILLFIELD HIGH SCHOOL BELVEDERE ROAD THORNTON CLEVELEYS
Received 31 May 2002IRON HOUSE FARM, LANCASTER ROAD, OUT RAWCLIFFE
Received 23 May 2016THE RAIL TERMINAL PAD AND OTHER RELATED DEVELOPMENT APPLEY LANE NORTH APPLEY BRIDGE
Received 30 Jun 2005MAINS LANE (NORTH ACCESS) A585 POULTON-LE-FYLDE
Received 6 Jun 2002UNIT G2 RIVERSIDE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE HERMITAGE STREET RISHTON
Received 16 Aug 2007LEYLAND WELLFIELD HIGH SCHOOL YEWLANDS DRIVE LEYLAND
Received 21 Jun 2004Clayton-le-Woods CE School Back Lane Clayton-le-Woods.
Received 1 Oct 1999West Lancashire Community High School, School Lane, Skelmersdale, WN8 8EH
Received 18 Mar 2026Records 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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