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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Edisford Hall Farmhouse Edisford Bridge Pig Hill Great Mitton BB7 3LJ
Received 15 Dec 2015Edisford Hall Farmhouse Edisford Bridge Pig Hill Great Mitton BB7 3LJ
Received 15 Dec 2015Prospect House Lower Lane Longridge PR3 3SL
Received 18 Dec 2015Samlesbury Enterprise Zone
Received 22 Dec 20157 Hospital Cottages Ribchester Road Ribchester PR3 3YA
Received 15 Dec 2015Howgill Barn Howgill Lane Rimington Lancashire BB7 4EF
Received 15 Dec 20158 Hospital Cottages Ribchester Road Ribchester PR3 3YA
Received 15 Dec 2015Broadhead Farm Moorfield Avenue Ramsgreave Lancashire BB1 9BZ
Received 18 Dec 2015Slack Farm Settle Road Newsholme BB7 4JF
Received 22 Dec 2015Bashalls Farm Hothersall Lane Hothersall PR3 2XB
Received 19 Dec 2015SIMFIELD FARMHOUSE, WOODHOUSE LANE, SLAIDBURN, CLITHEROE
Received 17 May 20021 & 2 Abbeycroft The Sands Whalley BB7 9TN
Received 7 Jan 2016Dewhurst Farm Longsight Road Langho Blackburn BB6 8AD
Received 8 Jan 201613 Brungerley Avenue Clitheroe BB7 2JB
Received 23 Dec 2015Wildmans Farm Longsight Road Langho BB6 8AD
Received 4 Jan 2016Millwood Manor Franklin Hill Brockhall Village BB6 8HY
Received 4 Jan 2016Bowland Wild Boar Park Wardsley Road Chipping PR3 2QT
Received 12 Jan 20162 Brookside Langho BB6 8AP
Received 4 Jan 2016Land to the rear of Showley Court Wilpshire BB1 9HS
Received 5 Jan 2016Brideway 16 Brookes Lane Whalley Lancashire BB7 9RG
Received 17 Dec 2015Chaigley Hall Farm Chipping Road Chaigley BB7 3LS
Received 21 Dec 2015129 RIBCHESTER ROAD, CLAYTON-LE-DALE, BLACKBURN
Received 20 May 2002The Old Vicarage Church Lane Great Mitton BB7 9PQ
Received 23 Dec 2015The Old Vicarage Church Lane Great Mitton BB7 9PQ
Received 23 Dec 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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