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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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.
FORMER RIBCHESTER HOSPITAL, PRESTON ROAD, RIBCHESTER, PRESTON
Received 12 Jul 200221 Church Street Ribchester PR3 3XP
Received 9 May 2014Barclays Bank Plc 41 Castle Street Clitheroe BB7 2BT
Received 9 May 2014Land rear of Beech Cottage Lovely Hall Lane Copster Green BB1 9EH
Received 12 May 2014New Barn Stonyhurst Clitheroe Lancashire
Received 8 May 2014Park Farm Whalley Road Barrow Clitheroe BB7 9BD
Received 24 Apr 20147 Whins Lane Simonstone BB12 7QR
Received 7 May 2014Craven Heifer 105 Whalley Road Clitheroe BB7 1HW
Received 14 May 20141 Wheatsheaf Avenue Longridge PR3 3WT
Received 1 Apr 2014Rydal Mount York Lane Langho BB6 8EH
Received 13 May 201413 Mayfield Avenue Clitheroe BB7 1LB
Received 13 May 20143 CROW HILL COTTAGES, LONGRIDGE ROAD, HURST GREEN, CLITHEROE
Received 11 Jul 2002Pickering Fold Farm Bezza Lane Balderstone BB2 7LQ
Received 13 May 2014Curtis House Chipping Road Longridge PR3 2NB
Received 13 May 2014Craven Heifer 105 Whalley Road Clitheroe BB7 1HW
Received 10 May 20142 Copster Drive Longridge Preston PR3 3SH
Received 14 May 2014Glenburn Whalley Road Billington BB7 8BY
Received 19 Mar 201415 Parker Avenue Clitheroe BB7 1JA
Received 2 May 2014Whitecroft Pendle Avenue Chatburn BB7 4AX
Received 27 Apr 201430 Brownlow Street Clitheroe Lancs BB7 1EG
Received 28 May 2014Lanshaw Barn Higher Woodhouse Lane Slaidburn
Received 29 Apr 2014Hammond Field Read BB12 7RE
Received 2 May 2014SHIREBURN PARK LIMITED, WADDINGTON ROAD, CLITHEROE, LANCS
Received 4 Jul 2002Briarcliffe Salthill Road Clitheroe BB7 1PE
Received 27 May 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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