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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land at Higher Standen Farm and Part Littlemoor Farm Clitheroe
Received 3 May 2017Laneside Farm Grindleton Road West Bradford BB7 4QH
Received 25 Apr 201725 Claremont Avenue Clitheroe BB7 1JN
Received 27 Apr 2017Rear of 62 Branch Road Mellor Brook BB2 7NY between 24 and 30 Bosburn Drive BB2 7PA
Received 25 Apr 201712 Back Lane Rimington BB7 4EL
Received 27 Apr 2017Knowle Top Clitheroe Road Pendleton BB7 1PU
Received 9 May 2017Plots 3 4 5 and 6 Eden Gardens Brockhall Village BB6 8HW
Received 2 May 2017WAVERLEY, OSBALDESTON LANE, OSBALDESTON, BLACKBURN
Received 11 Jan 2002Ridings Cottage Whalley Old Road Billington BB7 9JF
Received 3 May 2017Windshadow Avenue Road Hurst Green Clitheroe BB7 9QB
Received 8 May 201742 The Hazels Wilpshire Blackburn BB1 9HZ
Received 8 May 2017Northlands Ribblesdale Avenue Clitheroe BB7 2HZ
Received 4 May 201735 King Street Whalley BB7 9SP
Received 25 Apr 2017Thorneyholme Hall Newton Road Dunsop Bridge BB7 3BB
Received 4 May 2017land off Yew Tree Drive and Whinney Lane Blackburn BB2 7DN
Received 11 May 2017Pendle View Primrose Lane Mellor BB2 7EQ
Received 26 Apr 201741 Whalley Road Read BB12 7PB
Received 5 May 201730 Beverley Drive Clitheroe BB7 1HY
Received 8 May 2017WIMBOURNE, 105 CHATBURN ROAD, CLITHEROE, LANCS
Received 11 Jan 2002The Shippon Dewhurst Farm Longsight Road Langho BB6 8AD
Received 8 May 2017Lyndhurst 27 Ribblesdale View Chatburn Clitheroe BB7 4BB
Received 12 May 2017Sunnymeade Sawley Road Grindleton BB7 4QS
Received 9 May 2017PLM Fitness Unit 8 Abbot Works (AKA Unit 8 Abbey Works) King Street Whalley BB7 9SP
Received 12 May 2017Land at Barrow Brook Enterprise Park Barrow BB7 9QZ
Received 9 May 2017Records 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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