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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Rookwood School Lane Simonstone BB12 7HR
Received 29 Jul 2014Meadows Farm Worston BB7 1QA
Received 29 Jul 2014Brownthwaites and Hartsails Wood sawley Lodge Sawley Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 4LF
Received 30 Jul 2014St Josephs RC Primary School Whalley Road Hurst Green, Clitheroe BB7 9QJ
Received 4 Apr 2014Stonyhurst Salthill Gardens Clitheroe Lancs BB7 1PE
Received 23 Jun 2014Bank House, Sawley Road, Grindleton, Clitheroe, BB7 4RS
Received 25 Jul 201427 Inglewhite Road Longridge Preston PR3 3JS
Received 26 Jun 20145 Cowper Place Sawley Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 4LE
Received 31 Jul 201410 UNION STREET, CLITHEROE, BB7 2NH
Received 24 Apr 2001The Knolle, 26 Whalley Road, Wilpshire, Blackburn, Lancs
Received 31 Jul 2014Billingtons Farm Miles Lane Longridge Preston PR3 2TA
Received 1 Aug 2014Willow House Slaidburn Road Waddington Lancs BB7 3JJ
Received 1 Aug 20142 Police Houses Main Street Gisburn Clitheroe BB7 4HN
Received 30 Jul 2014Land at Woone Lane and land south of Primrose Mill, Clitheroe.
Received 1 Aug 2014Land off Pendle Drive Calderstones Park Whalley Lancashire
Received 15 Jul 201419 Crow Trees Road Sabden BB7 9HE
Received 1 Aug 20143 Arley Rise Mellor Lancashire BB2 7EU
Received 30 Jul 2014Brookfield Stoneygate Lane Ribchester Preston Lancashire PR3 3YN
Received 1 Aug 2014Hayhurst Cottage Pendleton BB7 1PT
Received 30 Jul 2014FORMER BUILDERS YARD, DERBY STREET, CLITHEROE, LANCS
Received 22 May 2001The Royal British Legion Towneley Road Longridge Preston PR3 3EA
Received 30 Jul 2014Dean Slack Head Grindleton Road Slaidburn BB7 4TW
Received 30 Jul 2014Land off Avenue Road Hurst Green Lancashire
Received 28 Jul 2014Land off Clitheroe Road Whalley BB7 9AQ
Received 31 Jul 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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