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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
37 Whitecroft Lane Mellor Lancashire BB2 7HA
Received 27 Apr 2015Chadswell Hall Chipping Road Chaigley Clitheroe BB7 3LT
Received 23 Apr 2015Land Adjacent to 28 Kirkmoor Road Clitheroe BB7 2DU
Received 28 Apr 2015BAE Systems Samlesbury Aerodrome Balderstone Lancs BB2 7LF
Received 23 Apr 201557 WHALLEY ROAD, WILPSHIRE, BLACKBURN
Received 16 Jul 2002Land to the east of Clitheroe Road Whalley BB7 9AB (Lawsonsteads)
Received 11 May 2015Lee Carter House Castle Gate Clitheroe BB7 1AZ
Received 22 Apr 2015Plots 24 - 39 Lawson Rise Clitheroe Road Whalley
Received 1 May 201516 Castle Gate Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 1AZ
Received 27 Apr 201519 Brookside Old Langho Blackburn BB6 8AP
Received 30 Apr 201512 Berkeley Drive Read Burnley Lancashire BB12 7QG
Received 1 May 2015Clark House Farm Fish House Lane Chipping PR3 2GQ
Received 29 Apr 2015St Josephs RC School Whalley Road Hurst Green Lancashire BB7 9QJ
Received 5 May 2015Land west of Preston Road Longridge
Received 3 Mar 201511 Hey Road Barrow Clitheroe BB7 9AW
Received 1 May 2015GREAT WOOD, BROCKHALL VILLAGE, OLD LANGHO ROAD, OLD LANGHO, BLACKBURN
Received 16 Jul 2002Ribblesdale View Greenside Ribchester Preston PR3 3ZJ
Received 12 May 2015Bonny Blacks Farm Howgill Lane Gisburn
Received 14 May 2015Markhor Eaves Hall Lane West Bradford Clitheroe BB7 3JG
Received 11 May 201534 Woodhead Road Read Lancashire BB12 7PH
Received 14 May 2015Foxgloves Back Lane Grindleton BB7 4RW
Received 27 Apr 2015Bennets Close Wiswell Lane Whalley BB7 9AF
Received 28 Apr 2015Specialised Automotive Services Garage rear of Pendle Street East Sabden BB7 9EQ
Received 29 Apr 201540 Inglewhite Road Longridge PR3 3JS
Received 1 May 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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