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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
Higher House Higher Farm Kiln Lane Paythorne BB7 4JD
Received 16 Oct 2013Dick Leigh Chainsaw Specialists Ashleigh Clitheroe Road Barrow BB7 9AQ
Received 20 Jan 2014WHALLEY INDUSTRIAL PARK, CLITHEROE ROAD, WHALLEY, CLITHEROE
Received 20 Aug 20017 Wheatley Drive Longridge PR3 3TT
Received 16 Jan 2014Craven Heifer 105 Whalley Road Clitheroe BB7 1HW
Received 9 Jan 2014Land adj Myerscough Smithy Road Mellor Brook
Received 3 Feb 2014Hammond Field Read BB12 7RE
Received 28 Jan 2014Land at Bentlea Road Gisburn
Received 6 Feb 2014Dilworth Barn Back Lane Newton-in-Bowland Lancs BB7 3AJ
Received 8 Feb 2014High Lea Barn Whins Lane Simonstone BB12 7QU
Received 15 Jan 2014Countess Hey Barn Elmridge Lane Chipping PR3 2NY
Received 10 Feb 2014Little Middop Farm Burnley Road Gisburn BB7 4JN
Received 18 Oct 2013Land adj 52 Chapel Hill Longridge PR3 2YB
Received 24 Jan 2014PREMISES OF RICHARD WILKINSON & SONS, WHALLEY NEW ROAD, BILLINGTON, CLITHEROE
Received 20 Aug 2001Mason House Farm Clitheroe Road Bashall Eaves Lancashire
Received 10 Feb 2014Victoria Hotel 1 Market Place Clitheroe BB7 2 BZ
Received 5 Feb 2014The Coach House 1 Ashcroft Cottages Clitheroe Road West Bradford BB7 4SS
Received 4 Feb 2014Land at Cunliffe Fold Farm adj Preston New Road Mellor
Received 20 Feb 2014AJA Smith Transport Ltd and Deli Solutions Salthill Industrial Estate Lincoln Way Clitheroe BB7 1QL
Received 18 Feb 201418 Whinney Lane Langho BB6 8DQ
Received 11 Feb 2014Garage premises Back Brennand Street Clitheroe BB7 2HQ
Received 13 Feb 2013Lower Abbott House Farm Abbott Brow Mellor
Received 13 Feb 2014Bell Sykes Farm Catlow Road Slaidburn BB7 3AQ
Received 14 Feb 2014Unit 6 Upbrooks Brookside Industrial Units Taylor Street Clitheroe BB7 1NL
Received 18 Feb 2014Records 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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