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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 West Lancashire Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
7,063 approved · 1,375 refused · 419 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 23 Dec 2011 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
7 Greenways Tarleton Lancashire PR4 6RN
Received 21 May 2015Springfield Court Nursing Home Springfield Road Aughton Ormskirk Lancashire L39 6ST
Received 22 May 2015Little Ferny Knoll Farm Ferny Knoll Road Rainford St Helens St Helens WA11 7TQ
Received 21 May 201523 Pinewood Close Scarisbrick Southport Lancashire PR8 5LL
Received 23 Mar 2015Pear Tree Cottage Flash Lane Rufford Ormskirk Lancashire L40 1SN
Received 21 May 2015116 Hall Road Scarisbrick Ormskirk Lancashire L40 9QF
Received 19 May 20153 Normanhurst Ormskirk Lancashire L39 4UZ
Received 1 May 2015Pardoe Court And Bretherton Court Junction Lane Burscough Lancashire
Received 23 Apr 20155 Clyffes Farm Close Scarisbrick Ormskirk Lancashire L40 9SB
Received 20 May 201575 Chapel Road Hesketh Bank Preston Lancashire PR4 6RT
Received 18 May 201551 Deans Lane Lathom Ormskirk Lancashire L40 4BL
Received 19 May 2015Lancashire Sun Society Hazel Grove Sandy Lane Rufford Ormskirk Lancashire L40 1SX
Received 22 May 20151 Grimrod Place Skelmersdale Lancashire WN8 9UU
Received 10 Feb 2017Rose Villa Georges Lane Banks Southport Lancashire PR9 8HD
Received 8 May 2018Hangar C2 To C4 Tollgate Road Burscough Ormskirk Lancashire L40 8LD
Received 21 Jun 2018Land And Stables Opposite Freshfield Vale Lane Lathom Ormskirk Lancashire
Received 7 Sept 2018Pennylands House High Street Skelmersdale Lancashire WN8 8LP
Received 11 Apr 2019Cottams Farm Shore Road Hesketh Bank Preston Lancashire PR4 6XP
Received 29 Apr 20193 Woodlands Close Ormskirk Lancashire L39 4XD
Received 12 Jul 2019Poplars Gorse Lane Tarleton Preston Lancashire PR4 6LJ
Received 23 Jan 2015Land At Becconsall Lane Farm 31 Becconsall Lane Hesketh Bank Lancashire PR4 6RR
Received 23 Aug 2019Hangar C2 To C4 Tollgate Road Burscough Ormskirk Lancashire L40 8LD
Received 30 Sept 2019Hangar C2 To C4 Tollgate Road Burscough Ormskirk Lancashire L40 8LD
Received 30 Sept 2019Dunscar Garden Centre Southport New Road Tarleton Preston Lancashire PR4 6HY
Received 7 Oct 2019Records 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 West Lancashire 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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