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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.
Northern Ireland · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
21 approved · 0 refused · 0 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 17 Jun 2026 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Lands at 70 Belfast Road, Lisburn, BT27 4AU
Received 30 Jul 202624 Lenaghan Avenue, Belfast, BT8 7JF
Received 29 Jul 202655m south west of No 14 Crewe Park Road, Glenavy, Crumlin, BT29 4NJ
Received 14 Aug 2026Lands adjacent to 17 Manns Road, Belfast, BT5 7SS
Received 2 Jul 202667 Comber Road, Belfast, BT16 2AE
Received 29 Sept 202617 Lynnwood Mews, Glenavy, Crumlin, BT29 4WX
Received 23 Jun 202648 Riverdale, Hillsborough, BT26 6DH
Received 21 Sept 2026Public footpath approximately 53 metres southeast of 1 Thornhill Manor, Dunmurry
Received 21 Jul 2026Exodus, 29 Railway Street, Lisburn, BT28 1XP
Received 21 Aug 202647 Cargygray Road, Hillsborough, BT26 6BL
Received 16 Sept 20266 Purdysburn Village, Belfast, BT8 8LJ
Received 6 Aug 2026Site adjacent and north of 95 Magheraconluce Road
Received 26 Jun 2026Site 25m south of no. 77 Banbridge Road, Dromara, BT25 2NE
Received 16 Sept 20262 Galwally House Drumkeen Complex, Upper Galwally, Belfast, BT8 6FY
Received 21 Aug 2026Lands to east of Royal Hillsborough Fort & west of the lake at Royal Hillsborough Forest Park, Royal Hillsborough, BT26 6AG
Received 4 Sept 2026Carrowreagh Business Park, Carrowreagh Road, Dundonald, BT16 1QQ
Received 23 Sept 2026Dundonald High School 764 Upper Newtownards Road, Belfast, BT16 1TH
Received 27 Jul 202649 Main Street, Glenavy, BT29 4LN
Received 6 Jul 20268 Llewellyn Avenue, Lisburn, BT27 4AG
Received 20 Jul 202624 Magheralave Court, Lisburn, BT28 3BY
Received 15 Jul 202676c Tirowen Drive, Lisburn, BT28 1SD
Received 14 Sept 202653-55 Bow Street, Lisburn, BT28 1BJ
Received 11 Aug 2026Lands formerly occupied by the Rolls Royce factory north of Upper Newtownards south of Inspire Business Centre east of Ballyoran Lane and west of Carrowreagh Road Dundonald
Received 13 Aug 202611 Bensons Road, Lisburn, BT28 3QX.
Received 24 Aug 2026Records 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.
Planning procedures in Northern Ireland differ from those in England. Use the authority’s own guidance for application requirements, comments and decision timescales.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Lisburn and Castlereagh City 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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