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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land off Clitheroe Road Barrow Lancashire BB7 9AQ
Received 26 Mar 201519 Warwick Drive Clitheroe BB7 2BG
Received 20 Mar 2015LAND ADJACENT, EDEN HOUSE, EDEN GARDENS, OFF MERSEY STREET, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON
Received 6 Sept 2002Land at Larkhill Cottages Old Langho BB6 8AR
Received 10 Apr 2015Marl Hill Barn Easington Road Cow Ark Nr Clitheroe BB7 3DH
Received 31 Mar 2015Land at Riddings Lane Whalley BB7 9RW
Received 18 Mar 2015Longridge Golf Club Forty Acre Farm Forty Acre Lane Longridge PR3 2TU
Received 14 Mar 20158 Calder Vale Whalley BB7 9SR
Received 19 Mar 2015Johnson Matthey Pimlico Industrial Area West Bradford Road Clitheroe BB7 4QB
Received 24 Mar 2015Wheatley Cottage Four Acre Lane Thornley Lancashire PR3 2TD
Received 24 Mar 2015Land at Barrow Brook Barrow BB7 9WA
Received 24 Mar 2015The Outbarn Clough Bottom Rabbit Lane Bashall Eaves BB7 3NA
Received 23 Mar 2015Craven Heifer 105 Whalley Road Clitheroe BB7 1HW
Received 10 Mar 2015CLITHEROE BUS AND RAIL INTERCHANGE, CONTROL ROOM OFFICE, RAILWAY VIEW ROAD, CLITHEROE
Received 1 Oct 2002Land off Lincoln Way Clitheroe BB7 1QD
Received 24 Mar 2015Dunsop Bridge Trout Farm Dunsop Road Dunsop Bridge Lancashire BB7 3AX
Received 24 Mar 2015Pump House Dean Wood Trapp Lane Simonstone Lancashire
Received 26 Mar 20153 Westfield Drive West Bradford BB7 4TF
Received 30 Mar 20155 West View Terrace Billington BB7 9LT
Received 31 Mar 2015Fairfield Business Park Longsight Road Clayton Le Dale BB2 7JA
Received 24 Mar 20158 Church Brow Clitheroe BB7 2AA
Received 30 Mar 201557 Beech Drive Whalley BB7 9RA
Received 30 Mar 2015Hargreaves and Coates Ltd Back St Pauls Street Clitheroe BB7 2LS
Received 27 Mar 2015Land off Whalley Road Mellor Brook
Received 24 Feb 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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