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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Wilsden Garstang Road Chipping Preston Lancashire PR3 2QH
Received 18 Aug 2014LAND OPPOSITE THE NURSERY AND LAND, OFF, THE DRIVE, BROCKHALL VILLAGE, OLD LANGHO
Received 11 Jun 200111 Glendale Drive Mellor Blackburn BB2 7HB
Received 13 Aug 201424 Park Avenue Clitheroe BB7 2HW
Received 14 Aug 201412 Hoghton Road Longridge Preston Lancashire PR3 3UA
Received 11 Aug 20142 Chapel Rise Billington Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 9TU
Received 13 Aug 20149 Fox Street Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 2AQ
Received 18 Aug 2014Hodgefield Billington Gardens Billington Clitheroe BB7 9LU
Received 19 Aug 2014High Head Farm Tosside Skipton N. Yorks BD23 4SX
Received 21 Aug 2014Land off Dale View Billington Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 9LL
Received 21 Aug 20144 Park Mews Gisburn Lancashire BB7 4ES
Received 22 Aug 2014Former Barkers Garden Centre Whalley Road Clitheroe
Received 21 Aug 201421 ST PAUL'S CLOSE, CLITHEROE, BB7 2NA
Received 10 Jul 2001Beckside Up Brooks Clitheroe BB7 1PL
Received 18 Aug 2014Post Office Downham Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 4BJ
Received 6 Aug 2014Post Office Downham BB7 4BJ
Received 6 Aug 201419 Warwick Drive Clitheroe BB7 2BG
Received 19 Aug 2014New Row Cottages Clitheroe Road Knowle Green PR3 2YS
Received 20 Aug 201429 Church Street Ribchester PR3 3YE
Received 20 Aug 2014The Mullions Higher Ramsgreave Road Ramsgreave Blackburn BB1 9DJ
Received 26 Aug 201429 Church Street Ribchester PR3 3YE
Received 20 Aug 2014BAE Systems Samlesbury Aerodrome Myerscough Road Balderstone Blackburn BB2 7LF
Received 21 Aug 2014Ash Tree Cottage Downham Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 4BJ
Received 19 Aug 2014Shireburn House Hurst Green Clitheroe Lancs
Received 11 Jan 2005Records 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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