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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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
FULWOOD ACADEMY BLACK BULL LANE FULWOOD PRESTON
Received 4 Feb 2011Riverside Road, Penwortham, Preston
Received 20 Mar 2023NEWBRIDGE FARM SIMONSWOOD
Received 7 Jun 1999GILLIBRAND PRIMARY SCHOOL, GROSVENOR ROAD, CHORLEY
Received 16 Mar 2021GREAT WOOD PRIMARY SCHOOL BEAUFORT ROAD MORECAMBE
Received 27 Jun 2008LAND SOUTH OF BEACON ROAD POULTON-LE-FYLDE
Received 31 Mar 2003STOPGATE LANE SIMONSWOOD
Received 1 Oct 2020HOLY CROSS HIGH SCHOOL BURGH LANE CHORLEY
Received 8 May 2003TRACK SOUTH OF WHINNY LANE PREESALL
Received 12 May 2006PRIDING HOUSE CO-OPERATIVE STREET BAMBER BRIDGE PRESTON
Received 12 May 2010WIGAN WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS, DEANS LANE, LATHOM ORMSKIRK
Received 9 Nov 2011COUPE GREEN PRIMARY SCHOOL COUPE GREEN HOGHTON PRESTON
Received 13 Apr 2006MILTON YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE, MILTON STREET, FLEETWOOD
Received 2 Apr 2014HOLY TRINITY STACKSTEADS COF E PRIMARY SCHOOL BOOTH ROAD STACKSTEADS
Received 14 May 2004WASTE TRANSFER STATION OFF WHITEGATE WHITE LUND INDUSTRIAL ESTATE MORECAMBE
Received 4 Oct 2002PADIHAM GREEN C OF E PRIMARY ST ANNES STREET PADIHAM
Received 10 Oct 2008WHINNEY HILL QUARRY, WHINNEY HILL ROAD,ACCRINGTON
Received 18 May 2015RIBBLESDALE CEMENT WORKS CLITHEROE
Received 21 Oct 1986WHINNEY HILL QUARRY, WHINNEY HILL ROAD, ACCRINGTON
Received 26 May 2015SACRED HEART CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL HEYS STREET THORNTON CLEVELEYS
Received 17 Feb 2005LAND BETWEEN SHARPLES LANE AND A586 (TARNACRE LANE) ST MICHAELS ON WYRE GARSTANG
Received 12 Oct 2009STONEFOLD ST JOHN C OF E PRIMARY RISING BRIDGE ROAD HASLINGDEN
Received 2 Nov 2010ST MICHAELS AND ST JOHNS RC PRIMARY LOWERGATE CLITHEROE
Received 29 Nov 2011LAND OF WHITEGATE WHITE LUND IND EST MORCAMBE
Received 3 Oct 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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