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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.
9,208 approved · 516 refused · 365 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 26 May 2011 to 13 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 18 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 Brickfield Place Leyland Preston Lancashire PR25 1FA
Received 21 Nov 202365 Balcarres Road Leyland Lancashire PR25 2EJ
Received 21 Nov 202316 Liverpool Road Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0AD
Received 21 Nov 202319 Hampden Road Leyland Lancashire PR25 3SR
Received 22 Nov 20231 Kingsway West Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0JA
Received 22 Nov 202328 Parkfield Close Moss Side Leyland Lancashire PR26 7XJ
Received 22 Nov 20231 Turnpike Close Much Hoole Preston Lancashire PR4 4HH
Received 23 Nov 202326 Formby Crescent Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 5YN
Received 23 Nov 202354 Walton Gardens Hutton Preston Lancashire PR4 5SF
Received 23 Nov 2023Test Track Aston Way Moss Side Industrial Estate Leyland Lancashire PR26 7TZ
Received 23 Nov 2023Land At Brook Lane Much Hoole Lancashire
Received 24 Nov 202338 Bracken Ghyll Close Buckshaw Village Chorley Lancashire PR7 7FE
Received 24 Nov 20233 Preston Road Leyland Lancashire PR25 4NT
Received 24 Nov 2023106 & 154 Bristol Avenue Farington Leyland Lancashire PR25 4GD
Received 23 Nov 202361 Cuerdale Lane Walton-Le-Dale Lancashire PR5 4BP
Received 25 Nov 2023Land To The Rear 310 Chapel Lane New Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 4AB
Received 27 Nov 20235 Edgley Court Hutton Preston Lancashire PR4 4BJ
Received 27 Nov 2023Land At Preston New Road Preston New Road Samlesbury Lancashire
Received 28 Nov 202340 Bow Lane Leyland Lancashire PR25 4YB
Received 28 Nov 20235 Pine Court Moss Side Leyland Lancashire PR26 7QZ
Received 28 Nov 2023Meadowcroft Business Park Pope Lane Whitestake Preston Lancashire PR4 4BA
Received 28 Nov 2023Singletons Farm Midge Hall Lane Midge Hall Leyland Lancashire PR26 6TN
Received 28 Nov 2023Naze Nook Cottage Grange Lane Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 5JD
Received 28 Nov 2023138 Liverpool Road Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 5AU
Received 28 Nov 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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