Planning

You can view current planning applications on the planning register.

How to comment on planning applications we manage.

Advice and guidance to ensure that the planning applications we deal with are in line with policy and legislation.

Enabling compliance with relevant legislation, national policies and initiatives relating to ecology, biodiversity and wildlife protection.

Development that aims to leave the natural environment in a measurably better state than it was beforehand.

We monitor planning permissions and investigate complaints about minerals extraction developments, waste management developments and the council's own developments.

We set the Minerals and Waste Local Plan working with Blackpool Council and Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council.

We may negotiate planning obligations with developers to offset the effects of new developments.

How to apply for sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) approval for developments.

The Historic Environment Record contains information on more than 35,000 known sites across Lancashire.

Public health advisory notes aimed at local planners and decision makers including hot food takeaways and active design.

For residential property that has depreciated in value, by physical factors resulting from public works , where no land is acquired.