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.
6,595 approved · 370 refused · 227 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Oakland Farm Hollins Lane Leyland Preston Lancashire PR26 8LJ
Received 11 Mar 2019Link House 4 Stanley Road Farington Leyland Lancashire PR25 4RH
Received 12 Mar 2019327 Dunkirk Lane Moss Side Leyland Lancashire PR26 7SY
Received 12 Mar 2019Braidswood House 184A Liverpool Road Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 5ZE
Received 11 Mar 201982 Langdale Road Leyland Lancashire PR25 3AS
Received 12 Mar 20193 Broadwood Close Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0XU
Received 12 Mar 201932 Stricklands Lane Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 9XU
Received 12 Mar 2019Land At Bannister Lane Farington Moss Lancashire PR26 6PT
Received 13 Mar 20191 Fox Lane Leyland Lancashire PR25 1HA
Received 13 Mar 201926A Studholme Crescent Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 9NE
Received 13 Mar 201975 - 81 Pope Lane Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 9BA
Received 13 Mar 201916 Moor Avenue Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0ND
Received 14 Mar 201940 Fox Lane Leyland Lancashire PR25 1HA
Received 13 Mar 201940 Fox Lane Leyland Lancashire PR25 1HA
Received 13 Mar 20191 Yewlands Drive Leyland Lancashire PR25 2TN
Received 13 Mar 2019375 Leyland Lane Leyland Lancashire PR25 1TA
Received 13 Mar 2019Sycamore House Long Moss Lane Whitestake Preston Lancashire PR4 4XQ
Received 13 Mar 2019Dardsley Brownedge Road Lostock Hall Lancashire PR5 5AL
Received 14 Mar 2019Leigh House Farm 1 Leigh House Courtyard Walton-Le-Dale Preston Lancashire PR5 5UH
Received 4 Mar 2019Land To Rear Of 42 Sandy Lane Leyland Lancashire PR25 2ED
Received 15 Mar 2019Hiltons Farm 2 Jane Lane Midge Hall Leyland Lancashire PR26 6TQ
Received 15 Mar 2019234 Liverpool Road Hutton Lancashire PR4 5HB
Received 18 Mar 2019Peel View Garage Drumacre Lane East Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 4SD
Received 18 Mar 20192 Sumner Street Leyland Lancashire PR25 2LD
Received 19 Mar 2019Records 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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