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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
HIGHWAY VERGE OPPOSITE JUNCTION WITH GAULTERS LANE, SANDY LANE, PREESALL
Received 1 Jun 2011ODEON CINEMA PORT WAY ASHTON-ON-RIBBLE PRESTON
Received 20 Oct 2021CLAUGHTON MANOR BRICKWORKS
Received 24 Mar 1986MIDDLETON WASTE TECHNOLOGY PARK MIDDLETON HEYSHAM
Received 5 Aug 2009BLACKO BAR ROAD ROUGHLEE
Received 11 Aug 2003POOL HOUSE SCHOOL KIDSGROVE INGOL
Received 7 Jul 2011LAND TO WEST OF JEMESON ROAD FLEETWOOD
Received 14 Jun 1996EX MITCHELIN SPORTS SITE WIDOW HILL ROAD BURNLEY
Received 31 Aug 2004WEST END PRIMARY GRIMSHAW LANE ORMSKIRK
Received 27 Nov 2012GREAT WOOD COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL BEAUFORT ROAD MORECAMBE
Received 23 Jan 2002GREENBANK QUARRY
Received 28 Apr 1997BANKS METHODIST PRIMARY SCHOOL CHAPEL LANE BANKS
Received 4 Aug 2009BRINSCALL QUARRY TWIST MOOR LANE BRINSCALL
Received 2 Feb 2005ELDON STREET PRIMARY ELDON STREET PRESTON
Received 31 Jan 2011WILLOW HOUSE FARM, BISPHAM ROAD,OFF FARADAY WAY, THORNTON-CLEVELEYS
Received 23 Jul 2020BARDEN JUNIOR SCHOOL ABEL STREET BURNLEY
Received 8 Feb 2005SCOUT MOOR QUARRY
Received 31 Jul 1997Land on East of Stanifield Lane and West of Old School Lane, Stanifield Lane, South Ribble
Received 10 Aug 2026Balladen Primary School, Linden Lea, Rawtenstall
Received 15 Aug 2022LONGTON PRIMARY SCHOOL SCHOOL LANE LONGTON PRESTON
Received 24 May 2004SEVEN STARS PRIMARY PEACOCK HALL ROAD LEYLAND
Received 20 Oct 2009CLIFTON MARSH LANDFILL SITE LYTHAM ROAD FRECKLETON
Received 28 Sept 1999RIVERSIDE MILL CHARLES STREET/REEDYFORD ROAD NELSON
Received 13 Feb 2012THE FORMER SITE OF PADIHAM WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS
Received 26 Jul 1999Records 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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Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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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