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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
RIBBLESDALE ARMS, MAIN STREET, GISBURN, CLITHEROE
Received 12 Mar 20022 Salthill Road Clitheroe BB7 1NU
Received 30 Sept 2015Land North and West of Littlemoor Clitheroe Lancashire
Received 29 Sept 201528 Kestor Lane Longridge Preston PR3 3JX
Received 18 Sept 2015St Mary's and All Saints Parish Church Church Lane Whalley BB7 9SY
Received 21 Sept 2015Land adjacent to Elker Mews Whalley Road Billington BB7 9AD
Received 28 Sept 2015Land to the rear of 116 St Pauls Low Moor Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 2LS
Received 9 Sept 201536 Knowsley Road Wilpshire BB1 9PX
Received 1 Oct 2015Haslingden Wind Farm Haslingden Old Road Oswaldtwistle BB5 3RP
Received 5 Oct 2015Unit 3-5 Deanfield Drive Clitheroe BB7 1QJ
Received 10 Sept 201525 Waddow Grove
Received 5 Oct 2015PLOT 6, WOODFIELDS, WHINS LANE, SIMONSTONE, BURNLEY
Received 13 Mar 20022 Regency Close Whalley BB7 9SH
Received 5 Oct 2015The Old Vicarage Shire Lane Hurst Green Clitheroe Lancs BB7 9QR
Received 5 Oct 2015Land off Parsonage Avenue Ribchester
Received 5 Oct 20151 Dovedale Gardens Longridge Lancashire PR3 3SF
Received 5 Oct 2015Little Elmridge Farm Height Lane Chipping PR3 2NU
Received 6 Oct 2015The Eaves Pendleton Road Wiswell Lancashire BB7 9BZ
Received 1 Oct 2015Unit 7 - 8 Berry Lane Longridge PR3 3WH
Received 6 Oct 20152 Pickering Fold Farm Bezza Lane Balderstone Lancashire BB2 7LQ
Received 24 Sept 2015Hillcrest Barker Lane Mellor Blackburn BB2 7EE
Received 1 Oct 2015Dinckley Grange Barn Ribchester Road Langho BB6 8AH
Received 28 Sept 2015HAWKSIDE, LONGSIGHT ROAD, CLAYTON-LE-DALE, BLACKBURN
Received 13 Mar 2002Clark House Farm Fish House Lane Chipping PR3 2GQ
Received 7 Oct 2015Records 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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