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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Tithe Barn Cottage Pendleton Road Wiswell BB7 9BZ
Received 28 May 2014The Old Smithy Little Bowland Road PR3 2QS
Received 28 Apr 2014Land east of Chipping Lane Longridge
Received 11 Apr 2014Land adjacent Countess Hey Farm Elmridge Lane Chipping PR3 2NY
Received 29 Apr 201421 Darwen Close Longridge PR3 3TP
Received 29 May 201410 Pendle Drive Whalley BB7 9UT
Received 29 May 2014land on SW side of Alston Lane Longridge
Received 29 May 2014Land adjacent to Lower Westall Lot Farm Haslingden Oswaldtwistle BB5 3RP
Received 28 May 2014Clitheroe Road Whalley Clitheroe BB7 9AQ
Received 10 Apr 2014HORTON MANOR FARM BARN, HORTON ROAD, HORTON IN CRAVEN, SKIPTON
Received 5 Aug 20021 Alston Court Longridge PR3 2XD
Received 18 May 201410 Chatburn Park Drive Clitheroe BB7 2AY
Received 16 May 2014East Cottage George Lane Read BB12 7RD
Received 19 May 2014Chapel House Chaigley BB7 3LT
Received 22 Apr 2014Pennine Service Station Longsight Road Osbaldeston Blackburn BB2 7HX
Received 17 Apr 2014Unit 1 32 King Street Clitheroe BB7 2EP
Received 22 Apr 2014Waddow Hall Waddington Road Clitheroe BB7 3LD
Received 17 Mar 2014Sandrock Avenue Road Hurst Green BB7 9QB
Received 2 May 20141 Sunnyside Avenue Ribchester PR3 3ZE
Received 15 Apr 2014Maple House 3 Maple Close Whalley BB7 9AG
Received 6 May 201420 KIRKDALE ROAD, LANGHO, BLACKBURN BB6 8EW
Received 8 Aug 2002Coach House 23 Main Street Bolton by Bowland BB7 4NW
Received 1 May 2014Abbot Barn Black House Lane Chipping Lancashire PR3 2NR
Received 15 May 2014Silverdale Church Lane Mellor BB2 7JL
Received 30 May 2014Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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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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