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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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
High roads/Back Lane, Carnforth
Received 28 Nov 1989BURNLEY WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS WOOD END GREENWOOD LANE FENCE
Received 7 Jun 2004HIGHAM ST JOHN'S CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL HIGHAM HALL ROAD HIGHAM BURNLEY
Received 4 Dec 2003RYDAL HOUSE SITE CHORLEY HALL ROAD CHORLEY
Received 7 Mar 2006SUBMISSION FOLLOWING ENFORCEMENT APPEAL CHATBURN OLD ROAD CHATBURN
Received 6 Oct 2021BROUGHTON BYPASS, BROUGHTON
Received 20 Jun 2014WHITEMOSS HORTICULTURE, NORTH PERIMETER ROAD, KNOWSLEY INDUSTRIAL PARK, KIRKBY
Received 3 Nov 2017WESTBY LANDFILL SITE ANNAS ROAD WESTBY
Received 26 May 2004LAND WEST OF PINCOCK BROW NORTH OF RIVER YARROW EUXTON CHORLEY
Received 20 Jan 2005LOWER BROCKHOLES QUARRY, BROCKHOLES BROW, PRESTON
Received 21 Sept 2021LAND NORTH OF MAIN DYKE BRIDGE, OFF GARSTANG ROAD EAST, POULTON LE FYLDE
Received 13 Feb 2014CHRIST THE KING R C PRIMARY CALDERBROOK AVENUE BURNLEY
Received 7 Oct 2005PEEL PARK COMMUNITY PRIMARY SCHOOL, ALICE STREET, ACCRINGTON
Received 26 May 2009FULWOOD ACADEMY BLACK BULL LANE FULWOOD PRESTON
Received 15 Feb 2010HENTHORN LANDFILL SITE, HENTHORN ROAD, CLITHEROE.
Received 11 Feb 2015QUEEN STREET MILL TEXTILE MUSEUM, QUEEN STREET, BRIERCLIFFE, BURNLEY
Received 23 Apr 2014GARSTANG HIGH SCHOOL GARSTANG ROAD BOWGREAVES GARSTANG
Received 15 Dec 2004UNIT 9 ABBEY LANE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE ABBEY LANE BURSCOUGH
Received 19 Sept 2006LEARNING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SERVICES CENTRE, SOUTHPORT ROAD, CHORLEY
Received 9 Oct 2014ST THOMAS THE MARTYR CE SCHOOL MILL LANE UPHOLLAND SKELMERSDALE
Received 9 Dec 2002SALTCOTES HWDC SALTCOTES ROAD LYTHAM
Received 22 Nov 1996Cottam County Primary School, Haydocks Lane, Preston, PR4 0NY
Received 29 Oct 2025Ashton Park near Glasson
Received 12 Nov 2001SALT AYRE, SALT AYRE LANE, LANCASTER.
Received 23 Dec 2013Records 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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