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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 9 Sept 200222 Church Close Waddington BB7 3HX
Received 9 Feb 201621 Paris Ramsgreave Blackburn BB1 9BJ
Received 9 Feb 2016Land adjacent to Thorneyholme Whalley Road Barrow BB7 9BA
Received 12 Feb 2016Old Row Whalley Road Barrow BB7 9AZ
Received 10 Feb 2016Cross House Back Lane Grindleton BB7 4RW
Received 12 Feb 2016land adj Brockhall Village Conference Centre, Old Langho BB6 8AY
Received 9 Feb 2016Land adj The Dene Hurst Green BB7 9QF
Received 8 Feb 201614 Southern Close Longridge PR3 3FS
Received 12 Feb 2016Land off Holden Lane
Received 8 Feb 201610 Vicarage Lane Wilpshire BB1 9HX
Received 5 Feb 2016ST. LEONARD'S C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL, WHALLEY ROAD, LANGHO, BLACKBURN
Received 9 Sept 200238 Mellor Lane Mellor BB2 7JR
Received 5 Feb 2016Plane Tree Farm Chaigley Clitheroe BB7 3LT
Received 15 Feb 2016Staple Oak Trough Road Dunsop Bridge BB7 3BG
Received 12 Feb 2016Meadows Farm Worston Clitheroe BB7 1QA
Received 12 Feb 201620 Nickey Lane Mellor BB2 7HF
Received 10 Feb 2016The Priory Hellifield Road Gisburn BB7 4HQ
Received 15 Feb 2016Pendle Garage Clitheroe Road Barrow Clitheroe Lancashire
Received 10 Feb 2016The Dog Inn Market Place Longridge PR3 3RR
Received 10 Feb 2016Parsonage Farm York Road Wilpshire BB1 4AE
Received 8 Feb 20163 Waddow Grove Waddington Clitheroe BB7 3JL
Received 18 Feb 2016HOB GREEN BARN, CHURCH CLOSE, MELLOR, BLACKBURN
Received 9 Sept 2002Ex Police MastWaddington Fell Clitheroe Waddington BB7 3AA
Received 15 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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