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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
29 Warwick Drive Clitheroe BB7 2BG
Received 20 Oct 2016Laneside House Sawley Clitheroe BB7 4LF
Received 20 Oct 2016Providence House Preston Road Ribchester PR3 3YD
Received 18 Oct 2016Blackburn Diocese Clayton House Walker Office Park Blackburn BB1 2QE
Received 20 Oct 2016Bambers Bungalow Smalden Lane Lane Ends Bolton by Bowland Clitheroe BB7 4PH
Received 18 Oct 2016Land west of Preston Road Longridge
Received 12 Oct 20164/6 NEW MARKET STREET, CLITHEROE, LANCS
Received 22 May 2002Land North of Bambers Bungalow Lane Ends Bolton by Bowland BB7 4PH
Received 18 Oct 201656 Mayfield Avenue Clitheroe BB7 1LE
Received 19 Oct 2016Oaksmead Manor Road Copster Green BB1 9EP
Received 18 Oct 2016Stonyhurst College Avenue Road Hurst Green BB7 9PZ
Received 11 Oct 2016Land off Dale View Billington BB7 9LL
Received 21 Oct 2016Darkwood Brow Part Bond Hurst Wood Off Ribble Lane Chatburn Lancashire.
Received 25 Oct 20166 Regency Close Whalley BB7 9SH
Received 21 Oct 2016Hillcrest House Coopers Fold Farm Higher Ramsgreave Road Ramsgreave BB1 9DQ
Received 17 Oct 2016Land off Chatburn Old Road Chatburn
Received 24 Oct 2016Barrow Service Station Holm Road Barrow
Received 21 Oct 2016HORTON GRANGE, HORTON ROAD, HORTON IN CRAVEN, SKIPTON
Received 10 Jun 2002Barn to the north of Phillips Farm Stoneygate Lane Ribchester PR3 3YN
Received 21 Oct 2016Public Conveniences Mellor Lane Mellor BB2 7JR
Received 21 Oct 2016Land adjacent Manor Barn Rimington Lane Rimington BB7 4DT
Received 18 Oct 2016Ethos House York Street Clitheroe BB7 2DL
Received 25 Oct 2016Land to the North of Ribblesdale View Chatburn BB7 4BB
Received 7 Oct 2016Mellor Village Hall Mellor Lane Mellor BB2 7EW
Received 17 Oct 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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