New housing in Chorley Borough Council
We read Chorley Borough Council's planning register every day. We hold 10,316 of its planning applications going back to 2015, and 96 of those made in the last 12 months are for new homes.
It delivered 63% of the homes it needed in the 2025 Housing Delivery Test, below the 75% at which national policy treats it as having an unmet need for housing.
Key facts
- Local Plan
- Not recorded yet.
- Five-year housing land supply
- Not recorded yet.
- Housing Delivery Test
- 63% (2025): presumption
- Local Plan sites we hold
- None loaded yet.
- Planning applications we hold
- 10,316
Applications for new homes, by year
Applications we have identified as being for new homes, by the year they were made. Approved and refused count those decided so far.
| Year | Applications | Approved | Refused |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 80 | 42 | 11 |
| 2025 | 105 | 65 | 12 |
| 2024 | 49 | 34 | 5 |
| 2023 | 61 | 31 | 7 |
| 2022 | 71 | 51 | 5 |
| 2021 | 52 | 30 | 11 |
The largest housing schemes of the last three years
| Homes | Site | Status | Made |
|---|---|---|---|
| 350 | Camelot Theme Park Park Hall Road Charnock Richard Chorley PR7 5LP Outline planning application (with all matters reserved save for the principal means of access) for a residential development of up to 350 homes (Use Class C3) and a 186.9 sqm (2,012 sqft) community hub (Use Classes C3… A/25/099469/NLA | Decided | 7 Aug 2025 |
| 280 | Land North Of Town Lane Town Lane Whittle-Le-Woods Erection of 280no. dwellings with associated landscaping, drainage and other infrastructure. 23/00981/FULMAJ | Decided | 15 Nov 2023 |
| 250 | Land East Of Leyland Road / South Of Factory Lane Penwortham Lancashire Outline Planning Application including details of access with all other matters reserved for erection of up to 250 residential dwellings (Use Class C3), with access from Leyland Road together with public open space… 07/2026/00357/OUT | Decided | 13 May 2026 |
| 181 | Land 150M North And 400M South West Of Laurel Bank Moulden Brow Feniscowles Hoghton Neighbouring local authority consultation from Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council regarding an application for a residential development for 181 dwellings with access, infrastructure including the construction of the… 06/25/00340/NLA | Awaiting decision | 10 Apr 2025 |
| 154 | Land At Penwortham Mills Factory Lane Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 9SN Approval of layout, scale, appearance and landscaping (reserved matters) of 154 dwellings, public open space, internal estate roads and related infrastructure as part of the hybrid planning application (ref.… 07/2025/00886/REM | Decided | 13 Nov 2025 |
| 146 | Little Knowley Farm Heapey Road Chorley Request for an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Screening Opinion pursuant to Regulation 6 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 (the "EIA Regulations") in respect of… 06/25/00499/SCE | Decided | 29 May 2025 |
| 145 | Land At Branch Road Mellor Brook Blackburn Lancashire Erection of 145 residential dwellings 07/2024/00665/SCE | Awaiting decision | 6 Sept 2024 |
| 105 | Land Next To Daub Hall Lane Daub Hall Lane Hoghton Lancashire Residential development consisting of 105 no. dwellings (including 37no. affordable units), together with associated parking, substation, private amenity space, boundary treatments, public open space and landscaping to… 07/2025/00957/FUL | Decided | 8 Dec 2025 |
| 97 | Woodlands Conference Centre Southport Road Chorley PR7 1QR Outline application with all matters reserved, other than means of access, for a residential development of up to 97 dwellings including new access points, open space, landscaping and other associated works 06/25/00476/CB3MAJ | Approved | 28 May 2025 |
| 84 | Land 150M North East Of 31 Paradise Street Chorley Outline planning application for up to 84 dwellings and associated infrastructure (with all matters reserved). 06/26/00352/OUTMAJ | Decided | 17 Apr 2026 |
Towns and villages
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Where this comes from
- Planning applications: Chorley Borough Council's online planning register, last read 14 Nov 2026.
- Housing Delivery Test: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
- How fields are scored: how the score works.