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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 · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for South Ribble Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
6,400 approved · 352 refused · 221 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jun 2015 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
1A Birchfield Much Hoole Preston Lancashire PR4 4HD
Received 1 May 2018Unit 201B Moss Side Village Centre Dunkirk Lane Moss Side Leyland Lancashire PR26 7SN
Received 2 May 2018128 Cop Lane Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0US
Received 2 May 201869 Lourdes Avenue Lostock Hall Preston Lancashire PR5 5TB
Received 2 May 2018St James Church Of England School Slater Lane Moss Side Leyland Lancashire PR25 1TL
Received 2 May 201876 Stanifield Lane Farington Leyland Lancashire PR25 4GA
Received 2 May 2018Land Off Wateringpool Lane Lostock Hall Lancashire
Received 3 May 2018Land Off Shaw Brook Road and Altcar Lane Leyland Lancashire
Received 3 May 201815 Cherry Trees Lostock Hall Preston Lancashire PR5 5ZA
Received 3 May 201862 Liverpool Road Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0DQ
Received 4 May 201866 Far Field Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 9YQ
Received 4 May 2018Goose Green Farm Moss House Lane Much Hoole Preston Lancashire PR4 4TD
Received 4 May 2018Land Adjacent To Belmont Grange Lane Hutton Lancashire
Received 4 May 2018Goose Green Farm Moss House Lane Much Hoole Preston Lancashire PR4 4TD
Received 4 May 2018Preston Scania 514 Four Oaks Road Walton Summit Industrial Estate Bamber Bridge Preston Lancashire PR5 8BW
Received 4 May 201812 Conway Avenue Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 9TR
Received 4 May 2018Blackburn Waste Water Treatment Works Cuerdale Lane Samlesbury Preston Lancashire PR5 0UY
Received 4 May 2018Goose Green Farm Moss House Lane Much Hoole Preston Lancashire PR4 4TD
Received 4 May 2018Whitestake Post Office Chain House Lane Whitestake Preston Lancashire PR4 4LB
Received 7 May 201828 Bristol Avenue Farington Lancashire PR25 4QP
Received 8 May 2018Collinwood Farm Ratten Lane Hutton Preston Lancashire
Received 8 May 201891 Seedlee Road Walton Summit Industrial Estate Bamber Bridge Preston Lancashire PR5 8AE
Received 8 May 2018247 Dunkirk Lane Moss Side Leyland Lancashire PR26 7SN
Received 4 May 201876 Liverpool Road Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 5PB
Received 8 May 2018Records 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 South Ribble Borough 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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