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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
PARBOLD QUARRY
Received 26 May 1988MIDDLEFORTH C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL HILL ROAD SOUTH PENWORTHAM
Received 23 Dec 2009PENWORTHAM KINGSFOLD PRIMARY SCHOOL MARTINFIELD ROAD PENWORTHAM
Received 19 Feb 2007CASTLE CEMENT RIBBLESDALE WORKS CLITHEROE
Received 10 Aug 2006FISHWICK PRIMARY SCHOOL DOWNING STREET PRESTON
Received 6 May 2011Whitemoss Landfill Site, White Moss Road South, Skelmersdale, WN8 9TH
Received 15 Jul 2024SANDY LANE PREESALL
Received 14 Jun 1949CLAUGHTON MANOR BRICKWORKS
Received 29 Aug 1978IGHTENHILL NURSERY SCHOOL LIONEL STREET
Received 23 Dec 2009GISBURN PRIMARY SCHOOL BURNLEY ROAD GISBURN
Received 23 Mar 2009PRESTON NEW ROAD, LITTLE PLUMPTON, PRESTON
Received 26 Jun 2018HODGSON HIGH SCHOOL MOORLAND ROAD POULTON-LE-FYLDE
Received 7 Jul 2005MOOR HEY SCHOOL, FAR CROFT, LOSTOCK HALL
Received 20 May 2020LAND ADJACENT TO BORWICK LAKE BORWICK
Received 1 Sept 2005DEERPLAY WORKS BACUP ROAD CLIVIGER
Received 11 Aug 1976BACUP AND RAWTENSTALL GRAMMAR SCHOOL GLEN ROAD ROSSENDALE
Received 10 Dec 2012SCOUT MOOR QUARRY
Received 4 Jun 2015DOWNEYFIELD FARM OVERTON NR HEYSHAM
Received 2 Jun 2006PLAYING FIELDS OF RIBBLESDALE HIGH SCHOOL/TECHNOLOGY COLLEGE ACCESSED OFF LANGSHAW DRIVE CLITHEROE
Received 23 Dec 2003ANSDELL COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL LANSDOWNE ROAD LYTHAM ST ANNES
Received 17 Jan 2007HEYSHAM YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE, EMMAUS STREET, HEYSHAM
Received 18 Jun 2007BRITANNIA CP SCHOOL ROCHDALE ROAD BACUP
Received 8 Aug 2006117-118 CLYDESDALE PLACE, MOSS SIDE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, LEYLAND
Received 1 Feb 2016LAND SOUTH OF YEW TREES ROSEACRE ROAD ELSWICK PRESTON
Received 15 Apr 2004Records 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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