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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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
10 BEACON ROAD POULTON BUSINESS PARK POULTON LE FYLDE
Received 5 Mar 2010ST PETER'S C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL SCHOOL LANE SIMONSTONE
Received 3 Feb 2005WHITE MOSS HORTICULTURE, SIMONSWOOD MOSS, NORTH PERIMETER ROAD, KIRKBY
Received 28 Oct 201933 HORNBY ROAD CATON LANCASTER
Received 18 Sept 2012CROSS HALL HIGH SCHOOL (ORMSKIRK HIGH SCHOOL)WIGAN ROAD ORMSKIRK
Received 18 Oct 2002BARNOLDSWICK WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS GREENBERFIELD LANE BARNOLDSWICK
Received 21 Oct 2002PLASTIC RECOVERY 45-49 ROUGH HEY ROAD INDUSTRIAL ESTATE GRIMSARGH PRESTON
Received 3 Feb 2004HASLAM PARK OFF TOM BENSON WAY PRESTON
Received 1 Apr 2004QUEEN STREET MILL TEXTILE MUSEUM,QUEEN STREET, BRIERCLIFFE, BURNLEY
Received 18 Sept 2012BROCKHOLES WOOD SCHOOL, BRANT ROAD, PRESTON
Received 14 May 2014GIFT HALL FARM WINMARLEIGH
Received 6 Mar 1970NAYLORS TRANSPORT (LEYLAND) LTD MOSS SIDE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE COMET ROAD LEYLAND PRESTON
Received 9 Jan 2009PENWORTHAM BYPASS - FROM A582 BROAD OAK ROUNDABOUT CONNECTING TO A59 BETWEEN HOWICK C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL AND BLACKHURST COTTAGES.
Received 30 Oct 20174 WARWICK AVENUE CHILDRENS HOME CLAYTON-LE-MOORS
Received 18 Sept 2006GREAT WOOD PRIMARY SCHOOL BEAUFORT ROAD MORECAMBE
Received 10 Oct 2003LIDUN PARK INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, BOUNDARY ROAD, LYTHAM ST ANNES.
Received 22 Feb 2019TWIST HILL / DELF HILL QUARRY BRIERCLIFFE BURNLEY
Received 27 Aug 1999ARCHBISHOP HUTTON PRIMARY SCHOOL BACK LANE WARTON CARNFORTH
Received 8 May 2003NORTHERN PRIMARY SCHOOL PLANTATION VIEW BACUP
Received 20 Sept 2010RED MARSH SPECIAL SCHOOL HOLLY ROAD THORNTON CLEVELEYS
Received 15 Jan 2008NORDEN HIGH SCHOOL STOURTON STREET RISHTON
Received 13 Mar 2006MELLING ST WILFRED C OF E SCHOOL, MELLING, CARNFORTH
Received 10 Mar 2011BACK LANE QUARRY, NETHER KELLET, CARNFORTH
Received 28 Mar 2013LAND OFF CORNWALL AVENUE, OSWALDTWISTLE.
Received 25 Oct 2007Records 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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