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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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
HASLINGDEN PRIMARY SCHOOL RYEFIELD AVENUE HASLINGDEN ROSSENDALE
Received 14 Jul 2010SIR TOM FINNEY SCHOOL, MOOR PARK, BLACKPOOL ROAD, PRESTON
Received 11 Aug 2016MOORSIDE PRIMARY SCHOOL BACK LANE HOLLAND MOOR SKELMERSDALE
Received 9 Jul 2004DALTON QUARRY/BRICKWORKS LEES LANE DALTON
Received 17 Dec 1987WESTBY LANDFILL SITE ANNAS ROAD WESTBY
Received 11 May 2006WHITEGATE WHITE LUND MORECAMBE
Received 28 Apr 1997CHATBURN BRANCH LIBRARY SAWLEY ROAD CHATBURN
Received 30 Jan 2004Silverhelme Campsite The Row Silverdale
Received 12 Oct 2001BRETHERTON ENDOWED C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL SOUTH ROAD BRETHERTON
Received 3 Mar 2005EWOOD BRIDGE SEWAGE WORKS IRWELL VALE ROAD HASLINGDEN
Received 4 Mar 2021LATHOM HIGH SCHOOL, GLENBURN ROAD, SKELMERSDALE
Received 2 Jul 2015FAIRFIELD NURSERY SCHOOL FAIRFIELD STREET ACCRINGTON
Received 17 Aug 2007BRITANNIA CP SCHOOL, ROCHDALE ROAD, BACUP
Received 10 Jul 2012SALT AYRE LANDFILL SITE OVANGLE ROAD LANCSTER
Received 30 Dec 2004QUEENS DRIVE PRIMARY SCHOOL BLACK BULL LANE FULWOOD PRESTON
Received 15 Dec 2004HOLMEWOOD HOSTEL CLOD LANE HASLINGDEN (TOR VIEW)
Received 21 May 2012STANWORTH QUARRY AND EDGE END QUARRY N.E. OF BOLTON ROAD, ABBEY VILLAGE
Received 20 May 1969LEE ROYD NURSERY ROYDS STREET ACCRINGTON
Received 2 Jun 2011HEASANDFORD PRIMARY CLEAVER STREET BURNLEY
Received 24 Apr 2009CATLOW FOLD FARM, SOUTHFIELD LANE, SOUTHFIELD, LANCASHIRE
Received 7 Mar 2022BLEASDALE HOUSE SCHOOL EMESGATE LANE SILVERDALE
Received 25 Sept 2006LEVER HOUSE COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL BRISTOL AVENUE FARINGTON
Received 30 Jun 2021UPHOLLAND LIBRARY HALL GREEN UPHOLLAND
Received 28 Apr 2003LANCASTER WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS, OLD ALDCLIFFE LANE, STODDAY, LANCASTER
Received 11 Mar 2013Records 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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