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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
12 Back Lane Rimington BB7 4EL
Received 2 Jun 201679 KING STREET, WHALLEY, CLITHEROE
Received 25 Sept 20018 Queen Street Whalley Lancashire BB7 9TA
Received 27 May 2016Land off Parsonage Avenue Ribchester
Received 25 May 2016Land adjacent to Greenfield Avenue Clitheroe
Received 25 May 2016102 Lowergate Clitheroe BB7 1AD
Received 24 May 2016Land North and West of Littlemoor Clitheroe Lancashire
Received 27 May 2016Land north and west of Littlemoor Clitheroe BB7 1HG
Received 27 May 201614 Oak Close Barrow Lancashire BB7 9FH
Received 2 Jun 2016Land opposite Foxhill House Whins Lane Simonstone
Received 27 May 20169 Primrose Road Clitheroe BB7 1EA
Received 1 Jun 201620/22 Stubbins Lane Sabden BB7 9EP
Received 1 Jun 2016PLOT 6A, THE DRIVE, BROCKHALL VILLAGE, OLD LANGHO
Received 20 Sept 2001land to the north of Riddings Lane Whalley BB7 9RL
Received 8 Jun 2016Bonny Inn Ribchester Road Clayton le Dale BB1 9HQ
Received 1 Jun 2015Land to the rear of 56 Moorland Crescent Clitheroe BB7 4PY
Received 31 May 2016Armrydding Farm Chaigley BB7 3LX
Received 1 Jun 2016Seven Acre Bungalow Forty Acre Lane Longridge PR3 2TY
Received 1 Jun 2016Morton House Birdy Brow Stonyhurst Clitheroe BB7 9QY
Received 9 Jun 201667 Pimlico Road Clitheroe BB7 2AH
Received 3 Jun 2016Land at Mitton Road Whalley
Received 2 Jun 2016Horton Grange Farm Horton Nr Skipton BD23 3JT
Received 9 Jun 2016Abbey Mill House 5 King Street Whalley Clitheroe BB7 9SP
Received 2 Jun 2016SAINSBURY STORE, MOOR LANE, CLITHEROE, LANCS
Received 25 Oct 2001Records 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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