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.
7,032 approved · 396 refused · 244 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jun 2015 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Oakmount Day Nursery Kellet Lane Bamber Bridge Preston Lancashire PR5 6AN
Received 15 Apr 202032 The Avenue Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0SU
Received 20 Apr 202063 Fox Lane Hoghton Preston Lancashire PR5 0JQ
Received 20 Apr 202026 School Lane Leyland Lancashire PR25 2TS
Received 20 Apr 20203 Halliwell Heights Walton-Le-Dale Preston Lancashire PR5 4NT
Received 20 Apr 2020Holiday Inn Express Preston South Reedfield Place Walton Summit Industrial Estate Bamber Bridge Preston Lancashire PR5 6AB
Received 20 Apr 20204 Masefield Place Walton-Le-Dale Preston Lancashire PR5 4TN
Received 20 Apr 202092 St Cuthberts Road Lostock Hall Preston Lancashire PR5 5TL
Received 21 Apr 2020150 Brownedge Road Lostock Hall Preston Lancashire PR5 5AE
Received 21 Apr 202011 Whitehead Drive Leyland Lancashire PR26 6QY
Received 21 Apr 2020Plot 6000 South Rings Business Park Craven Drive Bamber Bridge Preston Lancashire PR5 6BZ
Received 24 Apr 2020Advanced Manufacturing Facility Samlesbury Aerodrome Myerscough Smithy Road Balderstone Blackburn Lancashire BB2 7LF
Received 24 Apr 202063A Hennel Lane Walton-Le-Dale Preston Lancashire PR5 4LB
Received 24 Apr 202055 Marsh Lane Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 5ZL
Received 24 Apr 2020Land Between Lyme Road and The Cawsey Penwortham Lancashire
Received 28 Apr 2020Test Track Aston Way Moss Side Industrial Estate Leyland Lancashire PR26 7TZ
Received 28 Apr 2020310 Chapel Lane New Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 4AB
Received 28 Apr 202014 Rawstorne Road Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 9XB
Received 28 Apr 2020Ribble Park Lodge 150 Liverpool Old Road Much Hoole Preston Lancashire PR4 4QB
Received 28 Apr 2020Nook Farm Field West Of Cottage Lane Walton-Le-Dale Preston Lancashire
Received 29 Apr 2020Land South Of 89 Langdale Road Langdale Road Leyland Lancashire
Received 1 May 2020The Poultry Farm Moss House Lane Much Hoole Preston PR4 4TE
Received 1 May 2020New Mill Wesley Street Bamber Bridge Lancashire
Received 5 May 2020Land Adjacent To Mulberry House Rhoden Road Moss Side Leyland Lancashire PR26 7SX
Received 5 May 2020Records 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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