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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Park House Farm Gisburn Road Bolton by Bowland BB7 4LS
Received 19 May 2014Kemple Barn Whalley Road Pendleton Lancashire BB7 1PP
Received 21 May 2014115 Kemple View Clitheroe BB7 2QJ
Received 23 May 2014Land adjacent to Glen View Lower Road Longridge PR3 2YN
Received 22 May 2014Craven Heifer 105 Whalley Road Clitheroe BB7 1HW
Received 23 May 201460 Taylor Street Clitheroe BB7 1NL
Received 7 Mar 201444 Glendale Drive Mellor BB2 7HD
Received 15 May 2014SPAR SHOP, GEORGE STREET, WHALLEY, CLITHEROE BB7 9TH
Received 9 Aug 2002Osbaldeston Hall Farm Osbaldeston Lane Osbaldeston
Received 4 Jun 2014128 Whalley Road Langho BB6 8DD
Received 20 May 2014Greenacre 157 Ribchester Road Clayton le Dale BB1 9EE
Received 17 Apr 2014Eatoughs Farm Fleet Street Lane Ribchester PR3 3XE
Received 6 May 2014Madgell Bank Ribchester Road Clayton le Dale BB1 9EY
Received 26 Feb 2014Duddle House Farm Clitheroe Road Dutton PR3 2YT
Received 22 May 201420 Woodcrest Wilpshire BB1 9PR
Received 27 May 2014Bradyll House Franklin Hill Old Langho BB6 8HY
Received 12 May 201444 Waddow Grove Waddington BB7 3JL
Received 15 May 20148 Calder Vale Whalley BB7 9SR
Received 19 May 2014LAND AT THE JUNCTION OF PEEL STREET & HIGHFEILD ROAD, CLITHEROE, LANCASHIRE
Received 9 Aug 20022 Abbey Works Back King Street Whalley BB7 9SP
Received 15 May 20142 Downham Road Chatburn BB7 4AU
Received 12 Feb 2014The Glass House Elswick Farm Mellor Brow Mellor BB2 7EX
Received 5 Jun 2014AJA Smith Transport Ltd and Deli Solutions Salthill Industrial Estate Lincoln Way Clitheroe BB7 1QL
Received 27 May 201426/27 Asturian Gate Preston Road Ribchester PR3 3XQ
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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