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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Red Barn Mill House Lane Dilworth Bottoms Longrdige PR3 2YP
Received 24 Feb 2015Bolton Fold Cottages Alston Lane Longridge PR3 3BN
Received 26 Feb 2015Woodfold Halll/Woodfold Park Mellor
Received 16 Mar 2015Land adj Village Hall Main Street Newton in Bowland BB7 3DZ
Received 20 Feb 2015Wood Nook Moor Lane Billington BB7 9JQ
Received 11 Mar 2015Shay Grove Wiswell Shay Wiswell BB7 9AF
Received 2 Mar 2015Land between 52 and 54 Knowsley Road Wilpshire
Received 2 Mar 20154 The Green Osbaldeston Lane Osbaldeston Blackburn BB2 7LY
Received 4 Mar 2015Steelands Farm Grindeton Clitheroe BB7 4QT
Received 5 Mar 20157 BANK COTTAGES, WHALLEY ROAD, BILLINGTON, CLITHEROE
Received 12 Aug 2002Seven Acre Garage Barker Lane Mellor
Received 9 Mar 201515 Watt Street Sabden BB7 9ED
Received 9 Mar 20154 Court Grove Clayton Le Dale BB1 9HR
Received 9 Mar 2015Whalley Golf Club Long Leese Barn Clerk Hill Road Whalley BB7 9DR
Received 5 Mar 2015Hollins Farm Barn Clerk Hill Road Sabden BB7 9FR
Received 5 Mar 2015Craven Heifer 105 Whalley Road Clitheroe
Received 10 Mar 2015Brady's Wine Bar Old Conservative Club Queen Street Whalley BB7 9TA
Received 5 Mar 2015Brady's Wine Bar Old Conservative Club Queen Street Whalley BB7 9TA
Received 5 Mar 201540 Kenilworth Drive Clitheroe BB7 2QN
Received 17 Mar 2015Land adj to Stonyhurst View Franklin Hill Brockhall Village BB6 8BA
Received 3 Mar 2015BARROWBRIDGE HOUSE, CLUB STREET, OFF COCKERILL TERRACE, BARROW, CLITHEROE
Received 13 Aug 200291 Peel Street Clitheroe BB7 1NF
Received 27 Feb 2015Grange Farm Parsonage Road Wilpshire BB1 4AG
Received 1 Mar 201549 Ramsgreave Road Ramsgreave BB1 9BH
Received 2 Mar 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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