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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
CLOUGH FOLD PRIMARY SCHOOL HEATHGATE BIRCH GREEN SKELMERSDALE
Received 1 Jul 2004CASTLE CEMENT WORKS CLITHEROE
Received 11 Sept 1996WILLOW LANE COMMUNITY PRIMARY SCHOOL WILLOW LANE LANCASTER
Received 25 Apr 2008LAND FORMING PART OF THE FORMER ICI BURN HALL SITE THORNTON CLEVELEYS
Received 27 Apr 2007ELM STREET NURSERY SCHOOL NEW HALL STREET BURNLEY
Received 29 Jan 2004TOLLGATE CRESCENT BURSCOUGH
Received 25 Jul 2008MANOR ROAD PRIMARY MANOR ROAD CLAYTON LE WOODS
Received 16 Dec 2010REAM HILLS FARM MYTHOP ROAD WEETON
Received 5 May 2010Leapers Wood Quarry, Carnforth
Received 15 Aug 1986EDENFIELD PRIMARY SCHOOL MARKET STREET EDENFIELD
Received 20 Aug 2009YARD (FORMERLY UK SAFE STORAGE), HEYS LANE, GREAT HARWOOD
Received 20 Nov 2012SHALE QUARRY WITHNELL BRICKWORKS
Received 16 Dec 1955SIMONSWOOD MOSS NORTH PERIMETER ROAD KIRKBY
Received 12 Sept 2008BALSHAWS C OF E HIGH SCHOOL CHURCH ROAD LEYLAND
Received 17 Jan 2003LANDGATE AND MOSS QUARRIES WHITWORTH
Received 8 May 2003PUBLIC OPEN SPACE SOUTH OF RAILWAY TERRACE AND HAMLEDON VIEW GREAT HARWOOD
Received 26 May 2010UNIT 2 SIMONSWOOD INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, STOPGATE LANE, SIMONSWOOD, KIRKBY
Received 21 Mar 2019LANCASHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL HIGHWAYS DEPOT BACK HORNBY ROAD CATON
Received 26 Feb 2009Stanley Villa Farm, Back Lane, Weeton with Preese
Received 31 Mar 2025CLAYTON BROOK PRIMARY GREAT GREENS LANE CHORLEY
Received 29 Oct 2010LECK ST PETER'S CE PRIMARY SCHOOL CARNFORTH
Received 14 Aug 2002Pimbo Bushes Quarry, South East of Up Holland, Skelmersdale
Received 29 Oct 2024OFF GARSTANG ROAD (NORTH ACCESS) A586 POULTON-LE-FYLDE
Received 6 Jun 2002Lytham Green Drive Golf Club
Received 28 Apr 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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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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