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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Pilling Waste Water Treatment Work, off Tayors Lane, Pilling
Received 25 Apr 2002WHITECROSS INDUSTRIAL ESTATE SOUTH ROAD LANCASTER
Received 31 Jan 2006UNIT 6 & 7 HOLME ROAD CLAYTON LE MOORS ACCRINGTON
Received 11 Jun 2010LAND TO THE SOUTH OF CROOK GATE LANE, OUT RAWCLIFFE
Received 14 Sept 2010THROSTLE MILL, DANEHOUSE ROAD, BURNLEY.
Received 30 Sept 2013IVY BANK BUSINESS AND ENTERPRISE COLLEGE BYRON STREET BURNLEY
Received 28 Oct 2004High Roads/Back Lane, Carnforth
Received 13 Nov 1973STEPPING STONES SHORT STAY SCHOOL, BOWERHAM ROAD, LANCASTER
Received 28 Feb 2017BOWERHAM PRIMARY SCHOOL, BOWERHAM ROAD, LANCASTER
Received 13 Feb 2014LAND BETWEEN HALSALL WWTW, HASKAYNE WWTW AND HILLHOUSE WWTW
Received 18 Oct 2017VERGE, NORTH OF RAWCLIFFE ROAD AND EAST OF CATTERALL FARM, ST MICHAELS
Received 5 Oct 2015GERRARD PLACE SKELMERSDALE
Received 18 Feb 2010UNITS 2A AND 2B TOLLGATE ROAD BURSCOUGH INDUSTRIAL ESTATE BURSCOUGH
Received 25 Feb 2005SALT AYRE LANDFILL SITE OVANGLE ROAD LANCASTER
Received 30 Dec 2004STANWORTH AND EDGE END QUARRIES, WITHNELL
Received 9 Jul 1957Land off Bourbles Lane, Preesall
Received 31 Jul 2023WHITE CROSS INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, THE GATEHOUSE RESTAURANT, SOUTH ROAD, LANCASTER
Received 29 Nov 2019LANCASTER ROAD PRIMARY SCHOOL LANCASTER ROAD MORECAMBE
Received 28 Apr 2003RIBBLETON AVENUE INFANTS SCHOOL RIBBLETON AVENUE PRESTON
Received 23 Nov 2010OCEAN EDGE CARAVAN SITE MONEYCLOSE LANE HEYSHAM
Received 18 Jul 200321C ROUGH HEY ROAD
Received 18 Oct 2011CHAUCER PRIMARY SCHOOL CHAUCER ROAD FLEETWOOD
Received 24 Oct 2012SHAKESPEARE PRIMARY SCHOOL, MANOR ROAD, FLEETWOOD
Received 19 Sept 2014LAND TO THE NORTH WEST OF SUTTONS LANE GREAT ALTCAR
Received 4 Jan 2018Records 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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