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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Ribble Valley Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
22,401 approved · 3,924 refused · 1,937 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 12 Nov 1992 to 28 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 14 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
78 Bawdlands Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 2LA
Received 16 Sept 2008Hillcrest Farm Startifants Lane Chipping Preston PR3 2NP
Received 16 Sept 2008The Eaves Pendleton Road Wiswell Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 9BZ
Received 16 Sept 2008Roundabout Filling Station Chatburn Road Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 2AP
Received 16 Sept 2008Roundabout Filling Station Chatburn Road Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 2AP
Received 16 Sept 200836 PARSON LANE, CLITHEROE, LANCS
Received 6 Mar 2000Whins House The Whins Sabden Lancashire BB7 9HP
Received 17 Sept 2008Whins House The Whins Sabden Lancashire BB7 9HP
Received 17 Sept 20088 Knowsley Road Wilpshire Blackburn Lancashire BB1 9PX
Received 17 Sept 2008The Coach House 26 Whalley Road Wilpshire Blackburn BB1 9JT
Received 17 Sept 2008Charnley Cottage Preston Road Longridge Lancashire PR3 3BD
Received 18 Sept 20081 Sabden Brook Court Sabden Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 9FT
Received 18 Sept 2008Abbeyfield Society Union Street Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 2NH
Received 18 Sept 2008Land on Mitchell Street Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 1DF
Received 19 Sept 2008New Field Edge Hall Burnley Road Gisburn Lancashire BB7 4JN
Received 19 Sept 20087 Clitheroe Road Whalley Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 9AA
Received 19 Sept 2008YEW TREE COTTAGE, BLACKBURN ROAD, RIBCHESTER, PRESTON
Received 20 Mar 2000Park Side Bungalow Waddington Road Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 2JE
Received 19 Sept 2008Houldsworth Solicitors 2 - 4 Duck Street Clitheroe BB7 1LP
Received 19 Sept 2008Houldsworth Solicitors 2-4 Duck Street Clitheroe BB7 1LP
Received 19 Sept 2008Redwoods Thorneyholme Dunsop Bridge Clitheroe Lancs BB7 3BB
Received 19 Sept 2008Allandale Simonstone Lane Simonstone Lancashire BB12 7NP
Received 19 Sept 2008Lower Alston Farm & Ribblebank House Riverside Ribchester Lancashire PR3 3XZ
Received 22 Sept 2008Samlesbury Aerodrome Myerscough Road Balderstone Blackburn BB2 7LF
Received 22 Sept 2008Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Ribble Valley Borough Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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