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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
BARDEN HIGH SCHOOL HEALD ROAD BURNLEY
Received 21 Sept 2006ST JOHNS RC PRIMARY SCHOOL FLAMSTEAD BIRCH GREEN SKELMERSDALE
Received 17 Oct 2006CANN BRIDGE STREET LAND OFF CANN BRIDGE STREET, HIGHER WALTON
Received 16 Aug 2004COWLING FARM CHORLEY
Received 11 Feb 2004REAR OF 273 REGENT STREET NELSON
Received 16 May 2003THE SCHOOL HOUSE ALDWYCH DRIVE ASHTON PRESTON
Received 25 Jul 2008ST OSWALDS ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL HARTLEY AVENUE ACCRINGTON
Received 7 Sept 2005LAND ADJACENT TO BORWICK LAKE BORWICK NEAR CARNFORTH
Received 11 Feb 2004MOORFIELD INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, BURNLEY ROAD, ALTHAM, NEAR ACCRINGTON
Received 15 Dec 1988BORWICK HALL YOUTH CENTRE BORWICK CARNFORTH
Received 9 Oct 2003TOR VIEW SCHOOL CLOD LANE HASLINGDEN
Received 22 Jul 2004LANCASHIRE BUSINESS PARK FARINGTON LEYLAND
Received 3 May 2007SHAFTESBURY HOUSE SHORT STAY SCHOOL STRATFORD ROAD CHORLEY
Received 20 Jan 2005SHAKESPEARE PRIMARY MANOR ROAD FLEETWOOD
Received 17 Mar 2008TARNBRICK FARM BLACKPOOL ROAD KIRKHAM
Received 25 Apr 2006UNIT 1 DEWHURST ROW HOLME ROAD BAMBER BRIDGE
Received 17 Feb 2005LAND ADJACENT TO NEW COURT WAY CORNERING BURSCOUGH STREET ORMSKIRK
Received 17 Dec 2009MILL LANE APPLEY BRIDGE
Received 9 Jul 2004ADJACENT TO 30 GLENEAGLES DRIVE FULWOOD PRESTON
Received 12 Nov 2007LAND NORTH OF MAINS LANE, POULTON LE FYLDE
Received 23 Apr 2014HOPE TCE CRAG BANK ROAD CARNFORTH
Received 1 Apr 2003HELMSHORE PRIMARY SCHOOL GREGORY FOLD HELMSHORE ROSSENDALE
Received 13 Oct 2004WILLOW LANE COMMUNITY PRIMARY SCHOOL WILLOW LANE LANCASTER
Received 7 Oct 2005LAND OFF WEST CRESCENT BROUGHTON PRESTON
Received 15 Jan 2008Records 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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