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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
LANCASTER GIRLS GRAMMAR SCHOOL REGENT STREET LANCASTER
Received 22 May 2006UNITS D4 AND D5 RED SCAR INDUSTRIAL ESTATE LONGRIDGE ROAD PRESTON
Received 6 Dec 1985WHALLEY LIBRARY ABBEY ROAD WHALLEY
Received 5 May 2009NORTHFOLD CP SCHOOL, RINGWAY, THORNTON-CLEVELEYS
Received 6 Feb 2014NORTH CLIFFE BUILDING BLACKBURN OLD ROAD GREAT HARWOOD
Received 23 Oct 2020LAND AT THE END OF AVENUE ROAD NORMOSS
Received 24 May 2002COUNTY HALL 23 FISHERGATE HILL PRESTON
Received 22 Oct 2021WORSTHORNE PRIMARY SCHOOL BROWNSIDE ROAD WORSTHORNE
Received 4 Feb 2003LITTLE QUARRIES HILL TOP LANE WHITTLE-LE-WOODS CHORLEY
Received 3 Nov 2004LOSTOCK HALL CP SCHOOL, LINDEN DRIVE, LOSTOCK HALL
Received 22 Jan 2020COUNTY HALL COMPLEX PITT STREET PRESTON
Received 26 Jun 2002SEATON PLACE STANLEY INDUSTRIAL ESTATE SKELMERSDALE
Received 24 Oct 2006Castle Cement Works Ribblesdale Clitheroe
Received 4 Jan 2002HOLY CROSS RC HIGH SCHOOL BURGH LANE CHORLEY
Received 14 Oct 2009MOUNT PLEASANT PRIMARY SCHOOL EARL STREET CLAYTON-LE-MOORS
Received 22 Jul 2003CLITHEROE WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS HENTHORNE ROAD CLITHEROE
Received 15 Aug 2003ELLEL CRAG QUARRY BAY HORSE ROAD GALGATE LANCASTER
Received 24 Jun 2008MICHELIN SPORTS SITE WIDOW HILL ROAD BURNLEY
Received 29 Apr 2005LEMS SWINDON STREET BURNLEY
Received 25 Jan 2008DUNALD MILL QUARRY NETHER KELLET
Received 7 Nov 2003LAND TO THE SOUTH OF NORMOSS ROAD, NORMOSS
Received 23 Jan 2013WESTBY LANDFILL SITE ANNAS ROAD OFF PEEL ROAD WESTBY
Received 10 Jan 2003WHITEMOSS LANDFILL SITE, WHITE MOSS ROAD SOUTH, SKELMERSDALE
Received 5 Feb 2016RIBBLESDALE WORKS CLITHEROE
Received 23 Jul 1990Records 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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