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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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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 14 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
NORDEN HIGH SCHOOL STOURTON STREET RISHTON
Received 21 May 2007WITHNELL FOLD PRIMARY SCHOOL WITHNELL FOLD WITHNELL CHORLEY
Received 30 Dec 2002LOW MOOR MILL FOOTBRIDGE LOW MOOR CLITHEROE
Received 18 May 2007LOSTOCK HALL COMMUNITY PRIMARY SCHOOL AVONDALE DRIVE LOSTOCK HALL PRESTON
Received 9 Dec 2002TORRISHOLME PRIMARY LOW LANE MORECAMBE
Received 17 Nov 2009FORMER MITCHILIN ATHLETIC CLUB HEASANDFORD INDUSTRIAL ESTATE WIDDOW HILL ROAD BURNLEY
Received 5 Oct 2007HEYSHAM M6 LINK
Received 23 Apr 2014PLAYING FIELDS TO THE REAR OF TOR VIEW SCHOOL CLOD LANE HASLINGDEN
Received 1 Sept 2003FULWOOD HIGH SCHOOL BLACK BULL LANE FULWOOD PRESTON
Received 16 Oct 2002LAND AT DOWNEYFIELD FARM DOWNEYFIELD ROAD HEYSHAM
Received 24 Apr 2003SITE 13 OFF CENTURIAN WAY LEYLAND
Received 15 Oct 2003SPRINGFIELD PRIMARY SCHOOL OXFORD ROAD BURNLEY WOOD BURNLEY
Received 5 Nov 2004HILLSIDE NURSERY SCHOOL CEDAR AVENUE HASLINGDEN
Received 24 May 2004OFF TAYLOR'S LANE PILLING
Received 31 Jul 2001MORECAMBE ROAD PRIMARY SCHOOL, MORECAMBE ROAD, MORECAMBE
Received 18 Jul 2018LYTHAM ST ANNES TECHNOLOGY AND PERFORMING ARTS COLLEGE, WORSLEY ROAD, LYTHAM ST ANNES
Received 22 Jan 2019ST MARY'S COMMUNITY CENTRE MAURICE STREET NELSON
Received 14 Jul 2003BROOKFIELD COMMUNITY PRIMARY SCHOOL WATLING STREET ROAD RIBBLETON PRESTON
Received 10 Feb 2005CHAUCER PRIMARY SCHOOL CHAUCER ROAD FLEETWOOD
Received 2 Mar 2006WHITTLEFIELD PRIMARY SCHOOL TABOR STREET BURNLEY
Received 17 Dec 2004LAND AT HILLHOUSE INTERNATIONAL ENTERPRISE ZONE, OFF BOURNE ROAD, THORNTON.
Received 26 Oct 2017Leyland WWTW, Emnie Lane, Leyland
Received 13 Oct 2022COP LANE C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL COP LANE PENWORTHAM
Received 3 Mar 2005PETRE ARMS HOUSEHOLD WASTE RECYCLING CENTRE LONGSIGHT ROAD LANGHO
Received 26 Nov 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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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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