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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.
8,778 approved · 486 refused · 349 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Feb 2013 to 13 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 17 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
10 Whitefield Road Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0XJ
Received 26 Jun 2023Land At Duddle Lane Duddle Lane Walton Le Dale Lancashire
Received 26 Jun 2023Land At Longton Primary School School Lane Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 5YA
Received 26 Jun 202310 Danes Drive Walton-Le-Dale Preston Lancashire PR5 4UG
Received 27 Jun 2023Land to south of St Marys Church and north of the Eastwards A 59 Dual Carraigeway, at Samlesbury, Preston
Received 27 Jun 202372A Aspendale Close Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 5LN
Received 27 Jun 202344 Moor Lane Hutton Preston Lancashire PR4 5SE
Received 27 Jun 202364 Kingsway Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0ED
Received 27 Jun 202339 Liverpool Road Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 9XD
Received 28 Jun 2023Valdene Skip Lane Hutton Preston Lancashire PR4 5HJ
Received 28 Jun 2023101 Branch Road Mellor Brook Blackburn Lancashire BB2 7NY
Received 29 Jun 2023Brook House Farm Goosefoot Lane Samlesbury Preston Lancashire PR5 0RP
Received 29 Jun 202328 Croft Bank Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 9BH
Received 30 Jun 2023Oak House 13 Hollinhurst Avenue Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0AE
Received 30 Jun 202314 Rawstorne Road Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 9XB
Received 30 Jun 202334 Crookings Lane Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0HX
Received 30 Jun 202314A Cocker Lane Moss Side Leyland Lancashire PR26 7SU
Received 30 Jun 2023Singletons Farm Midge Hall Lane Midge Hall Leyland Lancashire PR26 6TN
Received 3 Jul 202339 Liverpool Road Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 9XD
Received 28 Jun 2023153 Liverpool Road Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0QH
Received 3 Jul 202364 Priory Lane Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0AS
Received 3 Jul 2023Danesway 52 Hall Lane Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 5ZD
Received 3 Jul 2023Land Adjcent To The Fields Long Moss Lane Whitestake Lancashire
Received 3 Jul 2023142 Marsh Lane Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 5YL
Received 4 Jul 2023Records 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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