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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.
7,791 approved · 435 refused · 292 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Feb 2014 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Ab Inbev UK Ltd Cuerdale Lane Samlesbury PR5 0XD
Received 23 Mar 20212 Lindle Crescent Hutton Preston Lancashire PR4 4AP
Received 25 Mar 202115 Brindle Road Bamber Bridge Preston Lancashire PR5 6RN
Received 25 Mar 202132 Lynton Avenue Leyland Lancashire PR25 4HY
Received 22 Mar 20219 Parker Lane Whitestake PR4 4JX
Received 25 Mar 202126 Sandringham Avenue Leyland Lancashire PR25 4YH
Received 25 Mar 2021Rosedale Gill Lane Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 4SR
Received 25 Mar 2021Lower Hall Farm Potters Lane Samlesbury Preston Lancashire PR5 0UE
Received 25 Mar 2021Travis Perkins Tomlinson Road Leyland Lancashire PR25 2DG
Received 26 Mar 2021Beech Lodge 9 Hall Lane Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 5XB
Received 26 Mar 2021Land Adjacent To Roundabout At Farington Road / Centurion Way Farington Preston Lancashire PR25 3GR
Received 26 Mar 2021Taps & Wine Bar 2 Chorley Road Walton-Le-Dale Preston Lancashire PR5 4JA
Received 26 Mar 2021Fieldside Old School Lane Lostock Hall Preston Lancashire PR5 5XP
Received 26 Mar 202157 Stanifield Lane Farington Leyland Lancashire PR25 4QA
Received 26 Mar 202144 Liverpool Road Penwortham Lancashire PR1 0DQ
Received 26 Mar 2021330 Four Oaks Road Walton Summit Industrial Estate Bamber Bridge Preston Lancashire PR5 8AP
Received 26 Mar 2021Rosedale Gill Lane Longton PR4 4SR
Received 25 Mar 202132 Birch Avenue Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0PB
Received 26 Mar 2021South Preston Office Village Cuerden Way Bamber Bridge PR5 6BL
Received 25 Mar 20211 Fieldings Close Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 5DG
Received 29 Mar 2021287 Higher Walton Road Higher Walton Preston Lancashire PR5 4HU
Received 29 Mar 202131 Buttercup Drive Leyland Preston Lancashire PR25 1FD
Received 29 Mar 2021149 Church Road Leyland Lancashire PR25 3JB
Received 29 Mar 2021Land Adjacent Beech Wood Chain House Lane Whitestake Lancashire
Received 29 Mar 2021Records 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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