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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.
8,487 approved · 464 refused · 326 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 25 Apr 2013 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 16 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Telecommunication Mast Dalgety Mill Lane Walton-Le-Dale Lancashire
Received 20 Oct 2022Land Adjacent To Langdale Flag Lane Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 9TP
Received 21 Oct 202284 Liverpool Old Road Much Hoole Preston Lancashire PR4 4QA
Received 21 Oct 2022219 Chapel Lane Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 4AD
Received 21 Oct 202223 Wheatfield Moss Side Leyland Lancashire PR26 7AD
Received 24 Oct 2022Land Adjacent To Civic Centre West Paddock Leyland Preston Lancashire PR25 1DH
Received 24 Oct 202224 Hambleton Close Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 5DQ
Received 18 Oct 2022BAE Samlesbury Aerodrome Whalley Road Samlesbury Blackburn Lancashire BB2 7LB
Received 11 Oct 202273 Ingleborough Way Leyland Lancashire PR25 4ZS
Received 24 Oct 202292 St Cuthberts Road Lostock Hall Preston Lancashire PR5 5TL
Received 25 Oct 202222 Mercer Road Lostock Hall Preston Lancashire PR5 5TQ
Received 25 Oct 2022Verge On East Side Of Holt Brow Leyland Lancashire
Received 25 Oct 20222 Padway Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 9EL
Received 25 Oct 20226 Solway Close Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 9RT
Received 26 Oct 202266 Mercer Road Lostock Hall Preston Lancashire PR5 5TR
Received 21 Oct 202241 Kingsway West Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0JA
Received 27 Oct 2022Church View Vicarage Lane Samlesbury Preston Lancashire PR5 0UD
Received 27 Oct 2022Stoney Lane House Stoney Lane Lostock Hall Preston Lancashire PR5 5XQ
Received 28 Oct 2022Webster Fold Cuerdale Lane Walton-Le-Dale Lancashire PR5 4EP
Received 28 Oct 202243 Whitefield Road Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0XJ
Received 28 Oct 2022172 Longmeanygate Midge Hall Leyland Lancashire PR26 6TD
Received 28 Oct 2022164 Liverpool Road Hutton Lancashire PR4 5SL
Received 24 Oct 2022Land West Of Samlesbury Samlesbury Lancashire
Received 21 Oct 202224 Far Field Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 9YQ
Received 31 Oct 2022Records 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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