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 · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for South Ribble Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
6,551 approved · 365 refused · 224 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jun 2015 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
12 Crawford Avenue Leyland Lancashire PR25 3FN
Received 5 Nov 2018Land Off Brindle Road Bamber Bridge Lancashire
Received 6 Nov 201862 Liverpool Road Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0DQ
Received 7 Nov 201862 Liverpool Road Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0DQ
Received 7 Nov 201820 Central Park Road Lostock Hall Preston Lancashire PR5 5BW
Received 7 Nov 2018Land At School Lane and Golden Hill Lane Leyland Lancashire
Received 7 Nov 2018Hurst Grange Lodge Hill Road Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 9XH
Received 6 Nov 2018Meadowcroft Business Park Pope Lane Whitestake Preston Lancashire PR4 4BA
Received 8 Nov 201841 Albany Drive Walton-Le-Dale Preston Lancashire PR5 4TX
Received 8 Nov 2018Rosedale Gill Lane Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 4SR
Received 8 Nov 2018Pear Tree Farm 247 Chapel Lane New Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 4AD
Received 9 Nov 201851 Kilngate Lostock Hall Preston Lancashire PR5 5UW
Received 12 Nov 2018Unit 4 - 4A Tomlinson Road Leyland Preston Lancashire PR25 2DY
Received 12 Nov 201814 Howick Cross Lane Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0NR
Received 12 Nov 20187 The Drive Walton-Le-Dale Preston Lancashire PR5 4BL
Received 13 Nov 2018Expac (Preston) Ltd Dunkirk Mill Dunkirk Lane Moss Side Leyland
Received 13 Nov 2018Leigh Brow House Leigh Brow Walton-Le-Dale Preston Lancashire PR5 5UJ
Received 13 Nov 2018Land Adjacent To Linden Lea Kellet Lane Bamber Bridge Lancashire
Received 13 Nov 2018Land Adjacent To Linden Lea Kellet Lane Bamber Bridge Lancashire
Received 13 Nov 201825 Midge Hall Lane Midge Hall Leyland Lancashire PR26 6TN
Received 13 Nov 201858 Whitefield Road Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0QQ
Received 14 Nov 2018Land Between Chapel Lane and Saunders Lane Hutton Lancashire
Received 14 Nov 2018Pickerings Farm Site Flag Lane Penwortham Lancashire PR1 9TP
Received 14 Nov 2018233 Brownedge Road Lostock Hall Preston Lancashire PR5 6UT
Received 15 Nov 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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