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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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
SPRINGHILL CP SCHOOL EXCHANGE STREET ACCRINGTON
Received 22 Sept 2005LAND SOUTH OF GRANGE ROAD SINGLETON
Received 3 Feb 2010ELLEL QUARRY BAY HORSE ROAD HAMPSON GREEN LANCASTER
Received 28 Jan 2008Leapers Wood Quarry, Carnforth
Received 1 May 1983LAND WEST OF SHAROE GREEN LANE FULWOOD PRESTON
Received 12 May 2011LYTHAM HALL PARK CP SCHOOL SOUTH PARK LYTHAM ST ANNES
Received 13 Jan 2003ROUND O QUARRY COBBS BROW LANE LATHOM
Received 23 Mar 2010CLAYTON BROOK PRIMARY GREAT GREENS LANE CLAYTON BROOK
Received 4 May 2007JAMESON ROAD - WHOLE SITE
Received 3 Apr 2002PRIMROSE HILL PRIMARY SCHOOL, PRIMROSE HILL ROAD, EUXTON
Received 11 Aug 2016MARSDEN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY COLLEGE, OFF WALVERDEN ROAD, BRIERFIELD, NELSON.
Received 26 Mar 2009BALSHAW LANE COMMUNITY PRIMARY SCHOOL BREDON AVENUE EUXTON CHORLEY
Received 19 May 2004BEZZA HOUSE, BEZZA LANE, SAMLESBURY
Received 30 May 2014HIPPINGS METHODIST PRIMARY HERON WAY OSWALDTWISTLE
Received 10 Feb 2011GRANGE FARM CLIFTON MARSH FRECKLETON
Received 15 Jan 1960Gillibrand County Primary School, Grosvenor Road, Chorley
Received 2 Mar 2023BACUP AND RAWTENSTALL GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Received 25 Oct 2004HESKIN LANE ORMSKIRK
Received 16 Apr 2003LAND AT PRESTON WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS, CLIFTON MARSH, LYTHAM ROAD, FRECKLETON
Received 3 Aug 2015NEWCHURCH ROAD STACKSTEADS BACUP
Received 18 May 2006LIDUN PARK INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, BOUNDARY ROAD, LYTHAM ST ANNES.
Received 1 Feb 2016OPPOSITE 49-51 GROVE LANE BURNLEY
Received 19 Jul 2004WALVERDEN PRIMARY SCHOOL, BRACEWELL STREET, NELSON
Received 4 Mar 2015Land at Woodcock Estate, Stanifield Lane, Farington
Received 22 Jun 2023Records 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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