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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land off Preston Road Longridge Lancashire
Received 25 Jun 2014The Moorcock Inn Slaidburn Road Waddington
Received 1 Jul 2014West Dockber Farm Sawley BB7 4LF
Received 3 Jul 20146 Eightacre Avenue Sabden BB7 1HQ
Received 3 Jul 2014Land adjacent to Chapel House off Chapel Lane West Bradford
Received 3 Jul 2014New Barn Farm Lane Ends Bolton by Bowland BB7 4PH
Received 3 Jul 2014Land off Waddington Road Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 2DE
Received 7 Jul 2014IVY COTTAGE, 135 WHALLEY ROAD, SABDEN, CLITHEROE
Received 12 Jul 2002Cowgill House Gisburn Road Sawley BB7 4LH
Received 27 Jun 2014Barraclough House Whalley Road Pendleton BB7 1PP
Received 1 Jul 201412 Denbigh Drive Clitheroe BB7 2BH
Received 3 Jul 2014Broadhead Farm Ramsgreave BB1 9BZ
Received 3 Jul 201410 Portland Road Langho BB6 8EL
Received 25 Jun 2014Land at Oswaldtwistle Moor off B6236 Haslingden road Accrington (Wind Turbine)
Received 15 Jul 2014Land off Pendle Street East Sabden
Received 1 Jul 20148 St Peters Close Clayton le Dale BB1 9HH
Received 3 Jul 2014Trapp Lane Simonstone
Received 2 Jul 20145 Stoneygate Lane Ribchester PR3 3YN
Received 4 Jul 20147 CRUMPAX MEADOW, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON
Received 15 Jul 2002Land adjacent (to the south of) The Barn George Lane Read Burnley BB12 7RD
Received 9 Jul 2014Land adjacent (to the south of) The Barn George Lane Read Burnley BB12 7RD
Received 9 Jul 2014BAE Systems Samlesbury Aerodrome Myerscough Road Balderstone BB2 7LE
Received 8 Jul 2014Land at Chapel Close Low Moor Clitheroe BB7 2QT
Received 7 Jul 2014Three Millstones Inn Waddington Road West Bradford BB7 4SX
Received 4 Jul 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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