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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.
10,012 approved · 562 refused · 395 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 26 May 2011 to 13 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 20 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
35 The Avenue Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0SU
Received 27 Aug 202553 Twill Road Farington Moss Leyland Lancashire PR26 6AF
Received 27 Aug 20253 Stanning Close Leyland Lancashire PR25 1HZ
Received 28 Aug 2025Land Adj To 222 Liverpool Road Tithebarn Farm Liverpool Road Hutton Preston Lancashire
Received 29 Aug 2025Bartle Hall Nurseries Liverpool Road Hutton Preston Lancashire PR4 5HB
Received 1 Sept 202533 Shaftesbury Avenue Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0EL
Received 2 Sept 2025Land Off Shaw Brook Road and Altcar Lane Leyland Lancashire
Received 3 Sept 2025212 Liverpool Road Hutton Preston Lancashire PR4 5HB
Received 3 Sept 2025Land To South Of Hall Lane Longton Preston PR4 5ZD
Received 4 Sept 20255 Beechway Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0XS
Received 5 Sept 2025Glenavon Gill Lane Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 4SR
Received 5 Sept 2025Land To North Of 153 Longmeanygate Midge Hall Leyland Lancashire PR26 7TB
Received 5 Sept 2025Land In Between 18 and 20 Claytongate Drive Penwortham Lancashire
Received 6 Sept 202512 Royal Avenue Leyland Lancashire PR25 1BQ
Received 6 Sept 2025Land off Valley Road adjacent to Valley Lodge
Received 6 Sept 2025TPO 2012 No 2 Adjacent 16 Kingsway Penwortham Lancashire
Received 6 Sept 202514 - 16 The Old Mill School Lane Bamber Bridge Preston Lancashire PR5 6SY
Received 8 Sept 2025Jb Motors Ltd Drumacre Lane East Longton Preston PR4 4SD
Received 9 Sept 20251 Huntley Woods Farm Myerscough Smithy Road Balderstone Blackburn Lancashire BB2 7LE
Received 9 Sept 20253 Chestnut Close Walton-le-dale Preston Lancashire PR5 4PQ
Received 9 Sept 2025The Chase Roach Road Samlesbury Preston Lancashire PR5 0RB
Received 9 Sept 2025227 Liverpool Road Hutton Preston Lancashire PR4 5FE
Received 10 Sept 20254 Little Twining Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 5ZU
Received 11 Sept 2025Field Off Carr Lane (located To South-west Of Birch House) Carr Lane Much Hoole Preston Lancashire PR4 4TH
Received 11 Sept 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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