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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
17 Brookes Lane Whalley BB7 9RG
Received 29 Jul 2015Pinfold Farm Barn Preston Road Ribchester PR3 3YD
Received 27 Jul 201592 ST PAUL'S STREET, CLITHEROE, BB7 2LS
Received 18 May 2001Land adj 97 Woone Lane Clitheroe BB7 1BJ
Received 28 Jul 20157 Leys Close Wiswell Lancashire BB7 9DA
Received 29 Jul 201574 Fairfield Drive Clitheroe BB7 2PS
Received 31 Jul 2015Land to the southwest of Montgomerie Gardens off Woone Lane Clitheroe BB7 1BP
Received 28 Jul 2015Granby Lea Fleet Street Lane Ribchester Preston PR3 3ZA
Received 29 Jul 2015The Old Police Station 13 Accrington Road Whalley BB7 9TD
Received 30 Jul 2015Ease Barn Farm Gallows Lane Ribchester PR3 3XX
Received 29 Jul 2015Langbar Tunstead Avenue Simonstone BB12 7NR
Received 27 Jul 2015Stables Barn Mill Lane Slaidburn Road Waddington BB7 3JJ
Received 29 Jul 2015GAMBLE HOLE FARM, BACK LANE, NEWTON, NR CLITHEROE
Received 4 Jan 2002White Lodge Main Street Pendleton BB7 1PT
Received 30 Jul 2015Hill Croft Shire Lane Hurst Green BB7 9QR
Received 29 Jul 2015Greenmoor Lane Farm Greenmoor Lane Knowle Green PR3 2YR
Received 5 Aug 2015Barn at Higher House Farm Settle Lane off Kiln Lane Paythorne BB7 4JD
Received 5 Aug 2015Land at Hodder Water Treatment Works Bentham Road Slaidburn BB7 3AQ
Received 5 Aug 2015The Rann Saccary Lane Mellor BB1 9DL
Received 7 Aug 2015Land at Whiteacre Lane Barrow Lancashire BB7 9BJ
Received 4 Aug 2015St Michael and St Johns School Lowergate Clitheroe BB7 1AG
Received 3 Aug 2015Land adjacent to Oak Leigh Whalley Road Barrow Lancs
Received 17 Aug 2015High Lea Bungalow Whins Lane Simonstone BB12 7QU
Received 31 Jul 2015Proven House Somerset Avenue Wilpshire Lancashire BB1 9JD
Received 18 Mar 2005Records 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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