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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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
PARKINSON SHEET METAL, UNIT 2 CHARTER STREET, ACCRINGTON.
Received 22 Mar 2013HILLAM LANE FARM COCKERHAM LANCASTER
Received 4 Mar 2005DEEPDALE INFANT SCHOOL ST STEPHEN'S ROAD PRESTON
Received 10 Jun 2005RIVERSIDE WASTE TRANSFER STATION AND RECYCLING CENTRE,
Received 13 Nov 2014LAND BETWEEN SHARPLES LANE AND A586 (TARNACRE LANE) ST MICHAELS ON WYRE GARSTANG
Received 14 Sept 2010LONGSANDS LANE PRIMARY SCHOOL LONGSANDS LANE FULWOOD PRESTON
Received 18 Mar 2010POOL HOUSE COMMUNITY PRIMARY SCHOOL KIDSGROVE TANTERTON INGOL PRESTON
Received 3 Feb 2004ST MICHAELS C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL CHURCH ROAD WEETON WITH PREESE
Received 29 Jun 2020MIDGE HALL LEYLAND
Received 18 Dec 1998PARK AVENUE EUXTON CHORLEY
Received 16 Sept 2003ASHTON-ON-RIBBLE HIGH SCHOOL ALDWYCH DRIVE PRESTON
Received 9 Oct 2003LAND EAST OF WORDEN AND BUCKSHAW WOOD, ROYAL ORDNANCE SITE, EUXTON LANE, CHORLEY
Received 29 Aug 2013MAYFIELD PRIMARY SCHOOL, ST LEONARDS ROAD EAST, LYTHAM ST ANNES
Received 18 Jan 2012WALTON-LE-DALE YOUTH CENTRE BRINDLE ROAD BAMBER BRIDGE PRESTON
Received 11 Oct 2002CHIPPING WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS OFF LONGRIDGE ROAD CHIPPING.
Received 6 Aug 2013DOCK ROAD LYTHAM
Received 1 Feb 1977THE WOODLANDS CENTRE SOUTHPORT ROAD CHORLEY
Received 3 May 200521C ROUGH HEY ROAD, GRIMSARGH.
Received 10 Jul 2017DUCKWORTH CLOUGH QUARRY HASLINGDEN
Received 30 Jun 1967COLNE PRIMET ACADEMY, DENT STREET, COLNE
Received 28 Mar 2022LAND BOUNDED BY BROAD WAY BROAD STREET STANWORTH ROAD RAILWAY STREET AND THE EXISTING RAILWAY LINE TO THE SOUTH (NELSON INTERCHANGE)
Received 14 Aug 2006TOR VIEW SCHOOL CLOD LANE BENT GATE HASLINGDEN
Received 30 Jan 2004LAND AT GIFT HALL WINMARLEIGH
Received 4 Mar 1965LAND SOUTH OF 275 ROSSENDALE ROAD BURNLEY
Received 2 Dec 2005Records 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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