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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bobbin Hall Shire Lane Hurst Green Clitheroe BB7 9QR
Received 4 Apr 2014The Hills Farm Higher Road Longridge PR3 2YX
Received 5 Apr 2014Pendle Garage Clitheroe Road Barrow Clitheroe Lancashire
Received 31 Jan 2014Giles Farm Four Acre Lane Thornley PR3 2TD
Received 9 Apr 201424 Longsight Avenue Clitheroe BB7 2AN
Received 4 Apr 20141 Kayfold Lodge Ramsgreave BB1 8NG
Received 11 Apr 20141 HIGHMOOR PARK, CLITHEROE, LANCS
Received 8 Jul 2002Field adjacent to Rosebank Lambing Clough Lane Hurst Green Clitheroe BB7 9QN
Received 26 Feb 2014White Carr Lodge Dilworth Bottoms Ribchester Preston PR3 3ZB
Received 16 Apr 2014No 3 The Green Osbaldeston Lane Osbaldeston BB2 7LY
Received 16 Apr 201459 Downham Road Chatburn BB7 4AU
Received 4 Apr 2014Middle Studlehurst Barn Osbaldeston Lane Osbaldeston Lancs
Received 14 Apr 201465 The Rydings Langho BB6 8BQ
Received 8 May 201467 The Rydings Langho BB6 8BQ
Received 8 May 2014Pasture House Farm West Marton Skipton BD23 3UJ
Received 7 Apr 20141 Brookside Old Langho Blackburn Lancashire BB6 8AP
Received 11 Apr 201442 LITTLE LANE, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON
Received 8 Jul 2002Land at Huntroyde Estate, Padiham
Received 30 Apr 2014Grindlestone House Farm Dutton PR3 3XY
Received 13 Mar 20147 Meadow Close Billington BB7 9LH
Received 7 May 201410 Portland Road Langho BB6 8EL
Received 22 Apr 2014Land at Greenacres/Tennyson Avenue Read Lancashire
Received 22 Apr 201439 Clitheroe Road Whalley BB7 9DA
Received 8 Apr 2014Sands Cottage 34 The Sands Whalley BB7 9TL
Received 22 Apr 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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