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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.
8,794 approved · 486 refused · 349 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Winston Drumacre Lane East Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 4SD
Received 4 Jul 2023Lesser Marsh House Farm Station Road Little Hoole Preston Lancashire PR4 5LH
Received 4 Jul 2023Brooklands 105 Marsh Lane Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 5YL
Received 4 Jul 202324 Prospect Avenue Lostock Hall Preston Lancashire PR5 5BH
Received 4 Jul 20233 Parklands Avenue Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0QL
Received 4 Jul 2023The Walled Garden Worden Park Leyland Lancashire PR25 1DJ
Received 5 Jul 2023The Walled Garden Worden Park Leyland Lancashire PR25 1DJ
Received 5 Jul 202335 St Cuthberts Road Lostock Hall Preston Lancashire PR5 5TH
Received 5 Jul 2023Tesco Express Canberra Road Leyland Preston Lancashire PR25 3ET
Received 6 Jul 2023Land To The East Of Reynard Close Longton Lancashire
Received 6 Jul 2023149 Liverpool Road Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0QH
Received 6 Jul 202315 West End Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0JD
Received 6 Jul 20238 Barn Croft Moss Side Leyland Lancashire PR26 7UD
Received 6 Jul 202366 Ampleforth Drive Lostock Hall Preston Lancashire PR5 5TE
Received 7 Jul 2023Land Ajacent To Footway Linking Moss Bridge Park With Highgale Gardens Lostock Hall Lancashire
Received 7 Jul 2023Hannings Farm Haunders Lane Much Hoole Preston Lancashire PR4 5JR
Received 7 Jul 202336 Moorside Drive Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0XF
Received 7 Jul 2023Woodland block to south of Stockade Crescent, North of Loom crescent and West of Preston Bypass
Received 7 Jul 20235 Skipton Close Bamber Bridge Preston Lancashire PR5 6HF
Received 7 Jul 20232 Churchill Way Leyland Lancashire PR25 3LZ
Received 10 Jul 20232 Churchill Way Leyland Lancashire PR25 3LZ
Received 10 Jul 2023Land West Of Lancashire Business Park Centurion Way Farington Lancashire
Received 10 Jul 20231 Poplar Avenue Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 5PA
Received 10 Jul 202327 Sunbury Avenue Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 9HR
Received 10 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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