Why a past date is not a refusal
Look down almost any area page and you will find entries reading Record lapsed. It is the single most misread thing on this site, and it is worth two minutes because the alternative is crossing good venues off a list for no reason.
What the date is
Each approval runs for a period and then has to be renewed. The date on an entry is when the current approval runs out. When a renewal happens, the council records it and the entry gets a new date — but that record has to travel from the council to the central list, and the central list is only republished occasionally.
So a past date means one of two things, and by far the commoner is the dull one: the renewal happened and has not reached the published list yet.
How much of the list this is
1,108 entries were already past their date on the day the current edition was published. The figure grows every month the list is not republished. Among them, at various times, have been some of the best known wedding venues in the country — places plainly still holding weddings every weekend.
Which is the argument for showing lapsed records rather than quietly hiding them. A list that dropped them would be shorter, tidier, and would leave out venues that are perfectly able to marry you.
What to actually do
Treat the date as a prompt rather than an answer. Ask the venue, and if you want it from the source, ask the council named on the entry — which, for a good reason, is often not the council of the area you were browsing. How to confirm a venue covers that.