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35 WATERLOO ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1AD
Use of part of rear of ground floor as restaurant and function room.
1 MOORE STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY4 1DB
Use of front of premises as a C4 HMO and use of rear of premises as a self-contained permanent C3...
PRUDENTIAL HOUSE, TOPPING STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 3AB
Use of premises as 54 self contained flats (Application for Prior Approval under Part 3, Class MA...
5 BISPHAM ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY3 7HQ
Erection of single storey side and rear extension.
262-266 TALBOT ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 3HL
Installation of new door and window to front elevation and subdivision of existing retail unit.
QUEENS MANSIONS, 224 QUEENS PROMENADE, BLACKPOOL, FY2 9HP
External alterations including erection of erection of fourth floor lift core and stairwell exten...
452 QUEENS PROMENADE, BLACKPOOL, FY5 1QT
Erection of a single storey front extension with first floor balcony and glass balustrade.
237 LYTHAM ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 6ET
Use of ground floor of premises as a shop
SITE BOUNDED BY PROMENADE, ST CHADS ROAD, WOODFIELD ROAD AND BOLTON STREET, BLACKPOOL, FY1 6BN
Discharge of conditions 4 (Drainage Management), 5 (Construction Management Plan) and 6 (Highway ...
WESTMINSTER ACADEMY, WESTMINSTER ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 2QE
Erection of 2.5m high timber fencing to the front boundary of the school.
UNIT 1, FESTIVAL LEISURE PARK, RIGBY ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 5EP
Installation of mezzanine floor and use of part of the premises as a cinema (sui generis) and alt...
8 MELROSE GARDENS, BLACKPOOL, FY4 4YW
Erection of porch to front elevation.
158 MARTON DRIVE, BLACKPOOL, FY4 3EY
Formation of vehicle crossing
174 WESTMORLAND AVENUE, BLACKPOOL, FY1 5QW
Erection of a single storey side and rear extension and roof lift to existing outrigger following...
UNIT 1, FESTIVAL LEISURE PARK, RIGBY ROAD, BLACKPOOL, FY1 5EP
Use of part of the ground floor of the premises as self storage ( Class B8 Unit), allterations to...
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When Blackpool Borough Council refuses an application, or does not decide it in time, the applicant can appeal to the Planning Inspectorate. An appeal that is allowed is one the council lost. Raw rates are not comparable between councils, because some kinds of appeal are allowed far more often than others, so the Inspectorate's national rate for each kind is applied to this council's own caseload to give the rate its mix predicts.
Blackpool Borough Council, raw rate
27.9%
of judged appeals were allowed, so the council's decision did not stand
Expected for this mix of appeals
29.4%
what the national rate for each kind of appeal predicts for this council's caseload
1.5 percentage points below expected. Blackpool Borough Council's decisions are overturned less often than the national record for the same kinds of appeal predicts for its caseload.
228 appeals counted, 219 judged either way (61 allowed, 158 dismissed), 9 judged neither way. These are appeals decided 2016-08 to 2026-06.
Each kind of appeal against the national rate for the same kind. This is the comparison the headline is built from.
| Appeal type | Cases | Judged | Allowed | This council | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planning Appeal | 115 | 112 | 36 | 32.1% | 28.8% |
| Householder (HAS) | 46 | 46 | 13 | 28.3% | 35.6% |
| Enforcement Notice | 29 | 25 | 3 | 12% | 13.5% |
| Commercial Appeal Service (CAS) | 19 | 19 | 5 | 26.3% | 33.3% |
| Advertisement Appeal | 14 | 12 | 3 | 25% | 36% |
| Lawful Development Certificate | 4 | 4 | 1 | Too few judged | 36.9% |
| Tree Preservation Order | 1 | 1 | 0 | Too few judged | 20.6% |
“Judged” counts appeals allowed or dismissed. The rest were withdrawn, invalid, split or unrecorded, and are counted but never treated as appeals the council won. A percentage is published only where at least 5 appeals were judged either way. Where it is not, the counts still are: a rate over one or two cases would claim a precision the sample cannot carry.
Source: the Planning Inspectorate's Casework Database, published quarterly on GOV.UK. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. These figures are the Inspectorate's appeal record, not the council's own planning register.
Blackpool Borough Council collects contributions from developers under planning obligations, but we do not yet hold its register in a form we can publish figures from. Only a minority of authorities publish one we can read, and this is not one of them, so we show nothing rather than a figure we cannot stand behind.
Beside what the council collected from developers, this is what central government confirmed: schemes in the area with grant agreed under the Homes England Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026.
Source: Homes England, schemes confirmed under the Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026, published on GOV.UK as transparency data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are as at 31 March 2025, the publication's own cut-off, so later schemes are not in them. Grant requested is the publisher's own figure at the point grant was confirmed, not money drawn down. Schemes are placed by the local authority name in the publication, which carries no planning reference.
Blackpool Borough Council is a local planning authority responsible for processing planning applications within its area. Applications are submitted through the council's planning portal and cover a wide range of development types, from householder extensions and change of use to large-scale residential and commercial schemes.
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