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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Greenbank Farm Whalley Road Sabden BB7 9DT
Received 8 May 2017Ford House Alston Lane Longridge PR3 3BN
Received 12 May 2017Old Grammar School Community Centre Station Road Whalley BB7 9RH
Received 8 May 2017Waddow Hall Waddington Road Clitheroe BB7 3LD
Received 8 May 2017Rear of 30 Beverley Drive Clitheroe BB7 1HY
Received 8 May 2017LANESIDE FARM, WEST BRADFORD ROAD, WADDINGTON, CLITHEROE
Received 11 Feb 2002Clitheroe Community Hospital Chatburn Road Clitheroe BB7 4JX
Received 12 May 2017Bambers Bungalow Smalden Lane Lane Ends Bolton by Bowland Clitheroe BB7 4PH
Received 8 May 2017Land to South-West of Barrow and West of Whalley Road Barrow
Received 8 May 2017Mill Hey Croft Sawley Road Chatburn BB7 4LD
Received 17 Nov 2016Little Snodworth Farm Snodworth Road Langho BB6 8DS
Received 28 Apr 2017The Deer House Woodfold Park Mellor BB2 7QA
Received 11 May 2017Whalley Post Office 97 King Street Whalley BB7 9SW
Received 9 May 2017Unit 8 Abbot Works (AKA Unit 8 Abbey Works) King Street Whalley BB7 9SP
Received 8 May 2017Whalley Post Office 97 King Street Whalley BB7 9SW
Received 9 May 2017Unit 13 Mitton Road Business Park Mitton Road Whalley BB7 9YE
Received 5 May 2017JENKINSONS FARM HOUSE, ALSTON LANE, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON
Received 11 Jan 2002Land off Henthorn Road Clitheroe BB7 2QF
Received 10 May 2017Lime House Farm Chipping Road Longridge PR3 2TE
Received 8 May 201731A Kestor Lane Longridge PR3 3JX
Received 5 May 201752a Knowsley Road Wilpshire BB1 9PN
Received 5 May 20171 Berry Lane Longridge PR3 3JA
Received 5 May 201718 Clitheroe Road Whalley BB7 9AB
Received 3 May 2017Sagar Wood Birdy Brow Chaigley BB7 3LR
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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