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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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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 26 Feb 2010Hillam Lane Farm Hillam Lane Cockerham.
Received 27 Jul 1999LAND SOUTH SIDE OF TOWN LANE, WHITTLE-LE-WOODS
Received 28 Jul 1980MORECAMBE ROAD SCHOOL MORECAMBE ROAD MORECAMBE
Received 30 Jun 2022Fair Oak Fell at The Whitewell Estate in The Forest of Bowland
Received 24 Jan 2026BOWLAND HIGH SCHOOL RIVERSMEAD GRINDLETON CLITHEROE
Received 7 Nov 2003MORECAMBE ROAD PRIMARY SCHOOL, MORECAMBE ROAD, MORECAMBE
Received 11 Mar 2019LAND TO SOUTH OF GANNOW LANE AND WEST OF SMALLSHAW LANE BURNLEY
Received 27 Jun 2006UNIT B3 REDSCAR INDUSTRIAL ESTATE LONGRIDGE ROAD RIBBLETON
Received 23 Oct 2007HEASANDFORD COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL WILLIAMS ROAD BURNLEY
Received 20 Oct 2006LAND FORMING PART OF THE FORMER ICI BURN HALL SITE THORNTON CLEVELEYS
Received 30 Jul 2007POULTON LE SANDS PRIMARY CHURCH STREET MORECAMBE
Received 31 Mar 2010WHEATLEY LANE METHODIST PRIMARY SCHOOL WHEATLEY LANE ROAD FENCE
Received 6 Jun 2003WATERSIDE FARM BODKIN LANE OUT RAWCLIFFE
Received 25 Apr 2002St Christopher's CE High Queens Road West Accrington
Received 17 Jul 2001PREESE HALL EXPLORATION SITE, PREESE HALL FARM, WEETON, KIRKHAM
Received 19 Dec 2013LAND IN FRONT OF NUMBERS 233-239 AND 247-253 COG LANE AND LAND BETWEEN NUMBERS 239 AND 247 COG LANE BURNLEY
Received 16 Jan 2004Ribblesdale High School Clitheroe
Received 13 Nov 2001LAND AT DRUMMERSDALE LANE SCARISBRICK ORMSKIRK
Received 23 Jan 2003BACUP AND RAWTENSTALL GRAMMAR SCHOOL GLEN ROAD WATERFOOT ROSSENDALE
Received 12 Jan 2005LAND TO THE REAR OF NOS 2-16 VENICE AVENUE BURNLEY
Received 30 Jan 2004WYRE ESTUARY AND ADJACENT EMBANKMENTS
Received 2 Jun 1997Stalmine County Primary School Mill Lane Stalmine
Received 3 Dec 2001CATFORTH COMMUNITY PRIMARY SCHOOL SCHOOL LANE CATFORTH
Received 28 Feb 2011Records 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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