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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
37 Oakdale Drive Whalley Lancashire
Received 14 Aug 2013St Marys Court Church Lane Mellor Blackburn Lancs BB2 7SE
Received 14 Aug 20132 Birtwistle Terrace Langho Blackburn Lancashire BB6 8BT
Received 13 May 2013Land between 52 & 54 Knowsley Road Wilpshire Lancashire
Received 13 Aug 2013Wade House 2 Church Brow Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 2AA
Received 8 Aug 201365 Chatburn Road Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 2AW
Received 14 Aug 2013Plessington Court Brewery Street Longridge Lancashire PR3 3LY
Received 8 Aug 20134 Highwoods Park Brockhall Village Old Langho Blackburn BB6 8HN
Received 20 Aug 2013Wilkinson Haulage Yard and adjacent land Whalley Road Billington BB7 9NW
Received 16 Aug 2013Nothcote Stud Northcote Road Langho Blackburn Lancashire
Received 16 Jul 2013Marl Barn Tosside Skipton
Received 8 Jul 200469 KING STREET, WHALLEY, CLITHEROE
Received 29 Oct 2002Tenement Farm Thornley Preston Lancashire PR3 2TL
Received 13 Aug 2013Chorley House Back Commons Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 2DX
Received 6 Aug 2013The Field Old Hive Chipping Preston Lancashire PR3 2QQ
Received 15 Jul 2013Clark House Chipping Preston PR3 2GQ
Received 3 Jul 201339 Bracken Hey Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 1LW
Received 23 Jul 2013James Alpe Accident Repair Centre Salthill Industrial Estate Lincoln Way Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 1QD
Received 6 Aug 2013Laneside Farmhouse Grindleton Road (Off Green Lane) Grindleton Lancashire BB7 4QJ
Received 22 Jul 201314 Inglewhite Road Longridge Lancashire PR3 3JS
Received 20 Aug 2013Barn adjacent to Shays Cottage Tosside BD23 4SY
Received 20 Aug 2013Clayton Manor Ribchester Road Wilpshire Blackburn BB1 9HU
Received 20 Aug 2013KEYSTREET, LOWERGATE, CLITHEROE, LANCS
Received 29 Oct 2002The Old Smithy Little Bowland Road PR3 2QS
Received 20 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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