Understanding planning · 13 min read
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.
10,048 approved · 564 refused · 396 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
Land Between Newlands and 1 Seaview Marsh Lane Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 5LA
Received 6 Oct 2025Intack Cottage Intack Lane Mellor Brook Blackburn Lancashire BB2 7PT
Received 6 Oct 20259 Nursery Close Leyland Lancashire PR25 1NS
Received 6 Oct 20251 Blundell Lane Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0EA
Received 6 Oct 2025Corner View Fowler Lane Farington Moss Leyland Lancashire PR25 3RJ
Received 6 Oct 202512 Bluebell Way Bamber Bridge Preston Lancashire PR5 6XQ
Received 6 Oct 20251 Airey Houses Dob Lane Walmer Bridge Preston Lancashire PR4 4SU
Received 7 Oct 2025155 - 161 Liverpool Road Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 5AB
Received 7 Oct 20252 Hollinhurst Court Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 0AG
Received 7 Oct 20251 Rawstorne Road Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 9XB
Received 7 Oct 2025Charlton Beeches 201A Higher Walton Road Higher Walton Preston Lancashire PR5 4HS
Received 8 Oct 2025OS 128 Great Park Drive Leyland Lancashire PR25 3UP
Received 8 Oct 2025Heatons Engineering Quin Street Leyland Lancashire PR25 2TA
Received 8 Oct 2025213 Brownedge Road Lostock Hall Preston Lancashire PR5 6UT
Received 9 Oct 2025Enterprise Business Park Red Rose Drive Farington Leyland Lancashire PR26 6TJ
Received 9 Oct 2025OS 8 Cuerden Rise Lostock Hall Preston Lancashire PR5 5YD
Received 9 Oct 2025Leyland Methodist Primary School Canberra Road Leyland Lancashire PR25 3ET
Received 9 Oct 2025363A Liverpool Road Walmer Bridge Preston Lancashire PR4 5JS
Received 9 Oct 202510 Wood Bank Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 9BN
Received 10 Oct 20258 Round Acre Samlesbury Preston Lancashire PR5 0UR
Received 13 Oct 2025Dunkirk Hall Dunkirk Lane Moss Side Leyland Lancashire PR26 7SW
Received 13 Oct 202512 Sandringham Park Drive New Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 4ZS
Received 13 Oct 2025Land Adj To 9 Chestnut Crescent Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 5ZN
Received 14 Oct 2025Heatons Engineering Quin Street Leyland Lancashire PR25 2TA
Received 14 Oct 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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