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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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
UNIT 2 SIMONSWOOD INDUSTRIAL ESTATE SIMONSWOOD
Received 16 Oct 2019HYNDBURN WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS MILL LANE GREAT HARWOOD
Received 4 Feb 2010FORMER ICI HILLHOUSE WORKS THORNTON
Received 10 Jun 2004BOWERHAM PRIMARY SCHOOL, BOWERHAM ROAD, LANCASTER
Received 5 Dec 2012CLAYTON HALL LANDFILL SITE DAWSON LANE WHITTLE LE WOODS CHORLEY
Received 19 Aug 2011WELLFIELD VICARAGE LANE WESTHEAD ORMSKIRK
Received 26 May 2009GREENLANDS COMMUNITY PRIMARY SCHOOL DAWNAY ROAD RIBBLETON PRESTON
Received 13 Jan 2005LAND AT BURNLEY WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORK, WOODEND, OFF BAGDEN LANE, BURNLEY
Received 3 Aug 2015LAND OFF EVERY STREET WHITEFIELD NELSON
Received 28 Mar 2011THE RAIL TERMINAL AND PAD APPLEY LANE NORTH APPLEY BRIDGE
Received 19 Aug 2005LONGRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL, PRESTON ROAD, LONGRIDGE
Received 11 May 2015HELMSHORE PRIMARY SCHOOL GREGORY FOLD HELMSHORE
Received 23 Sept 2005LONGRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL PRESTON ROAD LONGRIDGE PRESTON
Received 4 Apr 2002BRITANNIA PRIMARY ROCHDALE ROAD BACUP
Received 20 Dec 2011IVY BANK HIGH SCHOOL, BYRON STREET, PADIHAM
Received 3 Feb 2015CHIPPING WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS LONGRIDGE ROAD CHIPPING PRESTON
Received 7 Jun 2022SIR JOHN THURSBY COMMUNITY COLLEGE EASTERN AVENUE BURNLEY
Received 30 Jan 2008HYNDBURN WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS, MILL LANE, GREAT HARWOOD
Received 18 Nov 2015POULTON-LE-SANDS C E PRIMARY SCHOOL CHURCH STREET MORECAMBE
Received 11 Oct 2005The Acorns School, 43 Ruff Lane, Ormskirk
Received 22 Mar 2023HYNDBURN PARK PRIMARY SCHOOL PARK ROAD ACCRINGTON
Received 20 Feb 2004LANCASHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL HIGHWAYS DEPOT, HORNBY ROAD, CATON
Received 24 Feb 2012LAND EAST OF WORDEN AND BUCKSHAW WOOD ROYAL ORDNANCE SITE EUXTON LANE CHORLEY
Received 23 Jan 2009MORECAMBE ROAD SCHOOL MORECAMBE ROAD MORECAMBE
Received 10 Dec 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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