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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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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.
Fleetwood High School Broadway Fleetwood
Received 6 Apr 2001KIRKHAM SKIP AND RECYCLING CENTRE RAILWAY SIDINGS OFF STATION ROAD KIRKHAM
Received 28 May 2003LANCASHIRE COLLEGE SOUTHPORT ROAD CHORLEY
Received 8 Oct 2003CRIBDEN HOUSE SPECIAL SCHOOL, HASLINGDEN ROAD, ROSSENDALE
Received 16 Oct 2013LEA COMMUNITY PRIMARY SCHOOL GREAVESTOWN LANE LEA PRESTON
Received 19 Jul 2005Horncliffe Quarry Bury Road Rossendale
Received 28 Dec 2001HILLSIDE SPECIAL SCHOOL, RIBCHESTER ROAD, HOTHERSALL, LONGRIDGE
Received 3 Dec 2013WHINNEY HILL QUARRY, WHINNEY HILL ROAD,ACCRINGTON
Received 5 Jul 2013KENNINGTON PRIMARY SCHOOL KENNINGTON ROAD FULWOOD PRESTON
Received 8 May 2003Salt Ayre Landfill Site, Ovangle Road, Lancaster
Received 29 Aug 1986Sherdley Farm Ratten Lane Hutton Preston.
Received 20 Oct 1999Horncliffe Quarry Rawtenstall
Received 29 Mar 1999WHINNEY HILL LANDFILL SITE WHINNEY HILL ROAD ACCRINGTON
Received 23 Mar 2011WADDINGTON FELL QUARRIES, WADDINGTON.
Received 8 Jan 1982Monk Hey Farm Footbridge Brierfield
Received 12 Oct 2000IRON HOUSE FARM LANCASTER ROAD OUT RAWCLIFFE PRESTON
Received 5 Oct 2009Field off junction between A6 Preston Lancaster New Road and A586
Received 27 Nov 2001ROWLEY LANDFILL SITE - WHOLE SITE
Received 2 Feb 2001GLENBURN HIGH SCHOOL YEWDALE SOUTHWAY SKELMERSDALE
Received 16 Apr 2003TARNACRE QUARRY, TARNACRE LANE, ST MICHAELS ON WYRE
Received 7 Feb 2017LAND AT BUTCHERS FARM WORSTHORNE
Received 14 Nov 2005LAND AT MARSH FARM CLIFTON FRECKLETON
Received 1 Jun 1967LAND ADJACENT TO BORWICK LAKE CARNFORTH
Received 22 May 2006LAND OFF GERMAN LANE CHARNOCK RICHARD
Received 25 Oct 1984Records 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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