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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Lonsdales Farm Showley Road Clayton Le Dale BB1 9DP
Received 22 Nov 2013Bawdlands Edisford Road and Henthorn Road.
Received 27 Nov 2013Laneside Farm Pendleton Lancashire BB7 1PU
Received 13 Nov 2013Tythe Barn House Whins Lane Simonstone Lancashire BB12 7QR
Received 15 Nov 2013Shireburn Arms Hotel Whalley Road Hurst Green Clitheroe BB7 9QJ
Received 22 Nov 2013Hillside Special School Ribchester Road Hothersall PR3 3XB
Received 4 Dec 2013St John The Evangelist Longridge Road Hurst Green BB7 9QR
Received 4 Dec 2013Mitton Hall Country House Hotel Mitton Road Mitton BB7 9PQ
Received 25 Nov 2013Mitton Hall Country House Hotel Mitton Road Mitton BB7 9PQ
Received 25 Nov 2013Eaves Hall Moor Lane West Bradford Lancashire BB7 3JG
Received 12 Nov 2013RAVENS LODGE, 12 RIBCHESTER ROAD, WILPSHIRE, NR. BLACKBURN
Received 10 Jul 2001Eaves Hall Moor Lane West Bradford Lancashire BB7 3JG
Received 12 Nov 2013Stonehouse Nook Hollowhead Lane Wilpshire Lancashire
Received 11 Nov 20134 Horton Lodge Horton Skipton BD23 3JX
Received 25 Nov 2013Parker Avenue Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 1JA
Received 29 Nov 2013The Barn Old Back Lane Wiswell BB7 9BS
Received 6 Jul 2013The Manse Church Street Longridge PR3 3WA
Received 20 Nov 2013Hodder Bank Hodder Court Knowles Brow Stonyhurst BB7 9PP
Received 3 Dec 2013Land off Chapel Close Low Moor Clitheroe BB7 2ND
Received 27 Nov 2013Land next to 14 Church Raike Chipping Lancashire PR3 2Ql
Received 3 Dec 2013Todber Caravan Park Burnley Road Gisburn BB7 4JJ
Received 3 Dec 2013MEADOW VIEW, THE PADDOCK, SAWLEY, CLITHEROE
Received 23 Apr 2001Wade House 2 Church Brow Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 2AA
Received 3 Dec 2013Ghyll Seeds Farm Knotts Lane Tosside BD23 4SJ
Received 25 Nov 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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