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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Building adjacent to Tillycliffe Cottage 11 New Row Cottages Clitheroe Road Ribchester PR3 2YS
Received 19 Jan 2016Land at Southport House Sawley Lancashire BB7 4ND
Received 18 Jan 2016WADDOW HALL, WADDINGTON ROAD, CLITHEROE, LANCS
Received 15 Aug 2002Woodys Cafe Layby adj Sawley Grange (A59) Gisburn Road Sawley BB7 4LH
Received 12 Jan 2016Dewhurst Farm Longsight Road Langho Blackburn Lancashire BB6 8AD
Received 1 Feb 2016Kemple Barn Whalley Road Pendleton BB7 1PP
Received 25 Jan 2016Land adjacent to St Pauls Church Edisford Road Clitheroe BB7 2LT
Received 26 Jan 2016Land off Elker Lane Billington
Received 26 Jan 2016Land adjacent to 28 Kirkmoor Road Clitheroe
Received 25 Jan 2016Dower House Park Road Gisburn Lancashire BB7 4HT
Received 27 Jan 20167 Chapel Close Clitheroe BB7 2QT
Received 29 Jan 2016Bowker Farming Woods Brow Balderstone BB2 7LG
Received 28 Jan 2016The Red Pump Inn Clitheroe Road Bashall Eaves BB7 3DA
Received 5 Feb 2016BAY HORSE SAAB, LONGSIGHT ROAD, OSBALDESTON, BLACKBURN
Received 15 Aug 2002Boyd House Cherry Drive Brockhall Village Old Langho BB6 8HJ
Received 20 Jan 2016Middle Warble Hey Farm Long Row Mellor BB2 7EF
Received 29 Jan 2016Blue Trees Copster Green BB1 9EP
Received 1 Feb 2016Hazelmere Pimlico Road Clitheroe BB7 2AG
Received 29 Jan 201644 Waddow Grove Waddington BB7 3JL
Received 29 Jan 2016Higher Lickhurst Farm Leagram Chipping PR3 2QT
Received 2 Feb 20164 De Lacy Street Clitheroe BB7 2EE
Received 25 Jan 20167 Warwick Drive Clitheroe BB7 2BG
Received 29 Jan 2016Dower House Park Road Gisburn Lancashire BB7 4HT
Received 5 Feb 2016Kemple View Hospital Longsight Road Langho BB6 8AD
Received 1 Feb 2016Records 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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