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4,696 approved · 129 refused · 283 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
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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.
ELLEL QUARRY GALGATE LANCASTER
Received 29 Sept 1977STANLEY STREET PRESTON
Received 6 Jun 1990PARKLANDS HIGH SCHOOL, SOUTHPORT ROAD, CHORLEY
Received 19 Feb 2009ICI's BRINEFIELD STALMINE PREESALL
Received 18 Dec 1986ROSEHILL COMMUNITY INFANT NURSERY AND JUNIOR SCHOOLS CRESWICK CLOSE BURNLEY
Received 31 May 2002BARTON HOUSE PIMBO SKELMERSDALE
Received 2 Jun 2004PARK PRIMARY SCHOOL RUTLAND STREET COLNE
Received 11 Feb 2005CROSKELLS FARM DENNY BECK LANCASTER
Received 26 Jun 2008PEAR TREE SCHOOL STATION ROAD KIRKHAM
Received 11 Apr 2006LAND TO NORTH AND WEST OF EXISTING BLACKBURN WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS SPRING LANE SAMLESBURY
Received 19 Feb 2014LEE ROYD NURSERY SCHOOL, ROYDS STREET, ACCRINGTON
Received 3 Aug 2015PLASTICS RECOVERY 120-121 CLYDESDALE PLACE MOSS SIDE EMPLOYMENT AREA LEYLAND
Received 4 Dec 2002CARNFORTH HIGH SCHOOL KELLET ROAD CARNFORTH
Received 27 Nov 2003BURNLEY WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS, WOODEND ROAD, OFF BARDEN LANE, BURNLEY
Received 28 Apr 2022ST PETERS CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL SCHOOL ROAD HEYSHAM
Received 24 Jun 2005TULKETH COMMUNITY SPORTS COLLEGE TAG LANE INGOL PRESTON
Received 10 Dec 2004HILLHOUSE WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS NE ORMSKIRK
Received 12 Mar 2003LAND TO THE REAR OF ST OSWALDS CHURCH AND THE PROPERTIES ON WESTEND AVENUE COPPULL
Received 8 May 2012WHITEMOSS LANDFILL SITE WHITEMOSS ROAD SOUTH SKELMERSDALE
Received 26 Aug 2003BIRKACRE CHORLEY
Received 9 Jan 1951Fletcher Bank Quarry
Received 19 Jul 2000WEST QUARRY APPLEY BRIDGE
Received 23 Mar 1990GREEN AYRE PUBLIC OPEN SPACE OFF PARLIAMENT STREET LANCASTER
Received 7 Mar 2013COPPICE SCHOOL, ASH GROVE, BAMBER BRIDGE
Received 19 Sept 2017Records 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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