Source: West Lancashire Borough Council·Updated daily·Last checked 7 Oct 2026
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Plota holds 1,069 current planning applications from West Lancashire Borough Council, received since 29 Apr 2025, 298 of them in the last 90 days. Behind them, the Plota archive holds 14,788 earlier applications from West Lancashire Borough Council, 2016 to 2025, searchable by location and keyword. Current records are collected from the council's public register at pa.westlancs.gov.uk and checked every day; the last check was on 7 Oct 2026. Each record carries the council's reference, address, proposal, dates, status and decision, with a map location and Plota's classification by type and procedure added. The council's own record is the authoritative version; every entry here links to it.
Latest application from West Lancashire: 5 Oct 2026. We check the council's portal daily.