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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
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Ribble Valley Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Ribble Valley website
22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 12 Nov 1992 to 5 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 21 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Acresfield Bungalow Wigglesworth BD23 4SN
Received 20 Aug 20132 Glendene Park Wilpshire Blackburn Lancashire BB1 9JQ
Received 20 Aug 2013Land off Neddy Lane Billington
Received 19 Aug 2013Land off access track/public right of way to Oak Tree Farm off B6243 Preston Road Grimsargh
Received 23 Aug 2013The Old Tannery 6 Shawbridge Street Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 1LY
Received 21 Aug 2013The Old Tannery 6 Shawbridge Street Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 1LY
Received 21 Aug 20135 Redwood Drive Longridge Preston Lancashire PR3 3HA
Received 19 Aug 2013Land off King Lane (to rear of Cowgills) Clitheroe Lancashire
Received 21 Aug 2013Land off Middle Lodge Road Barrow BB7 9WA
Received 1 Aug 201310 THE PLANTATION, TOSSIDE, SKIPTON
Received 30 Oct 2002Land at Bennetts Close Wiswell Lane Whalley BB7 9AF
Received 21 Aug 2013Unit 7 Hawthorn Industrial Estate Lincoln Way Clitheroe BB7 1QD
Received 19 Aug 20135 The Woodlands Old Langho Blackburn Lancs BB6 8BH
Received 28 Aug 2013Rylstone 47 Edisford Road Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 3LA
Received 29 Jul 201336 Chapel Brow Downham Clitheroe BB7 4BR
Received 24 Aug 2013Shackletons Garden Centre Ltd Clitheroe Road Chatburn BB7 4JY
Received 27 Aug 2013Land accessed between 36 and 38 Henthorn Road Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 2NU
Received 27 Aug 2013Leagram Lodge Chipping PR3 2QS
Received 21 Aug 2013Pennine View Bleasdale PR3 1UT
Received 29 Aug 2013Countess Hey Barn Elmridge Lane Chipping PR3 2YU
Received 8 Aug 2013FLASS FARM, SETTLE ROAD, BOLTON-BY-BOWLAND, CLITHEROE
Received 11 Jul 2002Vacant garden area 10 Fairsnape Avenue Longridge PR3 3TZ
Received 5 Aug 2013The Bowling Green Old Langho Blackburn Lancashire BB6 8BL
Received 29 Aug 201315 Old Well Hall Main Street Downham BB7 4BW
Received 30 Aug 2013Records 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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