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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 4 Jul 1952LOWER TABLEY WASTE WATER PUMPING STATION, OFF TABLEY LANE, WOODPLUMPTON, NEAR PRESTON
Received 31 Oct 2014BETWEEN 71 AND 59 WHITELUND ROAD MORECAMBE
Received 31 Jan 2008KIRKLAND AND CATTERAL ST HELENS C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL THE GREEN CHURCHTOWN
Received 26 Apr 2002SOUTH PARKHALL CHORLEY
Received 21 Jan 2004MARSH LANE/WEST STRAND PRESTON
Received 21 Feb 2012ST THOMAS THE MARTYR C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL MILL LANE UPHOLLAND SKELMERSDALE
Received 28 May 2009DOLPHINLEE HOUSE PATTERDALE ROAD RIDGE ESTATE LANCASTER
Received 15 Mar 2004BARTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS, STATION ROAD, BARTON, PRESTON.
Received 25 Oct 2007LAND WEST OF SHAROE GREEN LANE FULWOOD PRESTON
Received 25 Nov 2010SALTCOTES ROAD LYTHAM ST ANNES
Received 21 Jul 2009MOORHEAD HIGH SCHOOL ACCRINGTON
Received 26 Feb 2004DALTON QUARRY, LEES LANE, DALTON
Received 13 May 2020DUKE STREET CHILDRENS CENTRE DUKE STREET CHORLEY
Received 7 Oct 2010PIMLICO ROAD CLITHEROE
Received 21 Apr 2008UNIT 4 CHAPEL HILL TRADING ESTATE LONGRIDGE PRESTON
Received 15 Mar 2011NEWTOWN NURSERY SCHOOL, WEST STREET, COLNE
Received 26 Mar 2014Land at Westhead Road, Croston, Chorley
Received 23 Mar 2023GREENLANDS COMMUNITY PRIMARY SCHOOL DAWNAY ROAD RIBBLETON PRESTON
Received 12 Jan 2009LAND NORTH OF HOLME BRIDGE, (LAND OFF NEW HALL HEY ROAD), RAWTENSTALL
Received 27 Aug 2013WHITWORTH QUARRY COMPLEX - LEE QUARRY
Received 16 Dec 1998GREAT ARLEY SCHOOL HOLLY ROAD THORNTON CLEVELEYS
Received 31 May 2002MOSS SIDE DEVELOPMENT PARK ASTON WAY LEYLAND
Received 24 Jun 2005LOWER BROOMFIELD, KIRBY LONSDALE ROAD, ARKHOLME
Received 30 Nov 2016Records 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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