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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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
LANCASTER ROAD CP SCHOOL, LANCASTER ROAD, MORECAMBE
Received 21 Aug 2012TORRISHOLME PRIMARY SCHOOL LOW LANE TORRISHOLME
Received 21 Jan 2009ST JOHNS NURSERY SCHOOL, NUTTALL AVENUE, GREAT HARWOOD
Received 2 Jun 2015COTESTONES LANDFILL SITE WARTON CARNFORTH
Received 9 Mar 1964RIVERSIDE WASTE TRANSFER AND RECYCLING CENTRE JAMESON ROAD FLEETWOOD
Received 5 Aug 2014WESTBY LANDFILL SITE, ANNAS ROAD, WESTBY
Received 14 Mar 2012GERMAN LANE CHARNOCK RICHARD CHORLEY
Received 30 Jan 1998MOORSIDE CP SCHOOL, BOWERHAM ROAD, LANCASTER
Received 5 Feb 2015UNIT 8, BURN HALL INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, VENTURE ROAD, THORNTON CLEVELEYS
Received 8 Oct 2014BACUP AND RAWTENSTALL GRAMMAR SCHOOL GLEN ROAD WATERFOOT ROSSENDALE
Received 11 Nov 2009GREENER GARDENING COMPANY SIMONSWOOD MOSS NORTH PERIMETER ROAD KIRKBY
Received 21 Apr 2020BICKERSTAFFE C OF E JUNIOR SCHOOL, HALL LANE, BICKERSTAFFE, ORMSKIRK
Received 14 May 2014HASLINGDEN HIGH SCHOOL BROADWAY HASLINGDEN ROSSENDALE
Received 8 Jan 2008CLITHEROE WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS, HENTHORN ROAD, CLITHEROE.
Received 5 May 2017MIDGELAND FARM LANDFILL SITE MARTON BLACKPOOL
Received 20 Sept 2005R & L METALS SNOWDON ROAD ST ANNES
Received 26 Jan 2004ENFIELD CENTRE CHURCH LANE CLAYTON LE MOORS ACCRINGTON
Received 17 Jan 2011FULWOOD AND CADLEY PRIMARY SCHOOL CADLEY CAUSEWAY PRESTON
Received 30 Jan 2006HILLHOUSE WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS
Received 2 Dec 2002UNIT 2 BALDERSTONE LANE HEASANDFORD INDUSTRIAL ESTATE BURNLEY
Received 29 Nov 2010LAND AT ST ANNES FORESHORE, CLIFTON DRIVE NORTH, LYTHAM ST ANNES
Received 31 Mar 2022CLEAR WATER FISHERIES, KELLET LANE, OVER KELLET
Received 17 Jul 2019PENWORTHAM PRIORY TECHNICAL COLLEGE CROWSHILL ROAD PENWORTHAM
Received 18 Nov 2002HEYSHAM CHILDRENS CENTRE MIDDLETON WAY HEYSHAM
Received 4 Oct 2010Records 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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