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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.
9,818 approved · 555 refused · 392 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 26 May 2011 to 13 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 19 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Adjacent To 148 Marsh Lane Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 5YL
Received 2 May 20251 Brooklands Skip Lane Hutton Preston Lancashire PR4 5HJ
Received 5 May 2025277 Station Road Bamber Bridge Preston Lancashire PR5 6LE
Received 7 May 2025Whitgate Farm Gill Lane Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 4SS
Received 7 May 2025Duxburys Garden Centre Chain House Lane Whitestake Preston Lancashire PR4 4LB
Received 7 May 2025142 Liverpool Road Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0QE
Received 8 May 2025Horse Shoe Cottage Land Adjacent To Penny Barn Carr Lane Much Hoole Preston Lancashire PR4 4TH
Received 8 May 2025Test Track Aston Way Moss Side Industrial Estate Leyland Lancashire PR26 7TZ
Received 8 May 2025328 Croston Road Farington Moss Leyland Lancashire PR26 6PN
Received 8 May 2025142 Liverpool Road Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0QE
Received 7 May 2025Gabbotts Farm Moss House Lane Much Hoole Preston Lancashire PR4 4TE
Received 9 May 20252 Hawthorne Cottage Myerscough Smithy Lane Balderstone Blackburn Lancashire BB2 7LB
Received 13 May 2025The Old Mill School Lane Bamber Bridge Preston Lancashire PR5 6SY
Received 13 May 2025Hutton Grammar School Liverpool Road Hutton Preston Lancashire PR4 5SN
Received 13 May 2025Land In Between 18 and 20 Claytongate Drive Penwortham Lancashire
Received 13 May 2025On The Grass Verge Across From The Driveway Of 32 Todd Lane South Lostock Hall Lancashire
Received 13 May 20254 Ratten Lane Hutton Preston Lancashire PR4 5TE
Received 14 May 202520 Houghton Road Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 9HS
Received 14 May 2025197 Liverpool Old Road Much Hoole Preston Lancashire PR4 4GB
Received 15 May 2025208 St Davids Road Leyland Lancashire PR25 4UY
Received 15 May 202539 Fox Lane Hoghton Preston Lancashire PR5 0JQ
Received 15 May 2025Land Off Croston Road and Moss Lane Flensburg Way Farington Moss Lancashire
Received 15 May 20252 Westgate Leyland Lancashire PR25 2LU
Received 15 May 2025A F L Auto Factors Ltd Leyland Lane Leyland Lancashire PR26 8PH
Received 15 May 2025Records 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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