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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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 14 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
RIBBLESDALE NURSERY SCHOOL QUEENS ROAD CLITHEROE
Received 13 May 2005LATHOM PARK C OF E SCHOOL HALL LANE LATHOM
Received 9 Jan 2003179 TORRISHOLME ROAD LANCASTER
Received 3 Jan 2013UNIT 3 STOPGATE LANE SIMONSWOOD INDUSTRIAL PARK KIRKBY
Received 3 Nov 2004ANNAS ROAD EXPLORATION SITE, ANNAS ROAD, WESTBY, NR BLACKPOOL
Received 10 May 2011HEYSHAM HIGH SCHOOL LIMES AVENUE HEYSHAM
Received 3 Nov 2009LAND TO THE EAST OF FLEETWOOD ROAD, THORNTON CLEVELEYS
Received 12 Aug 2014JAMESON ROAD LANDFILL SITE FLEETWOOD
Received 21 Sept 2009LEYLAND METHODIST INFANT SCHOOL CANBERRA ROAD LEYLAND
Received 9 Jun 2006GILLIBRAND PRIMARY SCHOOL, GROSVENOR ROAD, CHORLEY
Received 24 Jun 2013SOUTHLANDS HIGH SCHOOL CLOVER ROAD CHORLEY
Received 9 Jun 2005RIBBLESDALE FARM RIBCHESTER
Received 28 Nov 1974WADDINGTON FELL QUARRIES, WADDINGTON.
Received 13 Oct 1988GREAT ARLEY SCHOOL, HOLLY ROAD, THORNTON-CLEVELEYS
Received 26 May 2021CHORLEY LIBRARY UNION STREET CHORLEY
Received 9 Jun 2010HOLLAND MOSS NIPE LANE SKELMERSDALE
Received 24 Jan 2001FLETCHER BANK QUARRY, MANCHESTER ROAD, RAMSBOTTOM
Received 13 Aug 2013PINGWOOD LANE SIMONSWOOD INDUSTRIAL PARK KIRKBY LIVERPOOL
Received 25 Jan 2010SCOUT MOOR QUARRY
Received 15 Feb 2010OPPOSITE NO 5 WINCHESTER CLOSE WHITE LUND
Received 13 Sept 2007Moorhead High School Cromwell Avenue Accrington.
Received 7 Feb 2001LAND AT LEYLAND WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS, EMNIE LANE, LEYLAND
Received 6 Aug 2015SEVEN STARS PRIMARY SCHOOL PEACOCK HALL ROAD LEYLAND
Received 4 Mar 2013LPDS WOODLANDS CENTRE SOUTHPORT ROAD CHORLEY
Received 25 Jan 2002Records 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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Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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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