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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 off Dale View Billington
Received 15 May 2017DUTTON WORKSHOP, CLITHEROE ROAD, DUTTON, PRESTON
Received 28 Jan 200214 Pendle Drive Calderstones Park Whalley Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 9JT
Received 15 May 2017Land to South-West of Barrow and West of Whalley Road Barrow
Received 11 May 2017Clend Farm (formerly Cocklick End Farm) School Lane Dalehead Slaidburn Clitheroe BB7 4TS
Received 19 May 2017Oaklands Longsight Road Copster Green BB1 9EX
Received 26 May 20176 Beechwood Avenue Clitheroe BB7 1EZ
Received 22 May 2017Providence House Preston Road Ribchester PR3 3YD
Received 23 May 20171 St Denys Croft Pimlico Road Clitheroe BB7 2BY
Received 25 May 2017Banks House Back Lane Chipping PR3 2QA
Received 23 May 2017Providence House Preston Road Ribchester PR3 3YD
Received 23 May 2017Sabden Primary School Whalley Road Sabden BB7 9DZ
Received 30 May 2017LAND AT, DEERHOUSE FARM, MILL LANE, GISBURN, CLITHEROE
Received 1 Feb 2002Coach and Horses 20 Main Street Bolton by Bowland BB7 4NW
Received 2 May 20173 Brookes Lane Whalley BB7 9RG
Received 25 May 2017land off Clitheroe Road adj Shaw House Farm BB7 9AD
Received 30 May 2017South View Higher Ramsgreave Road Ramsgreave Lancashire BB1 9DQ
Received 26 May 2017Land off Coal Pit Lane Gisburn
Received 26 May 201784 Mitton Road Whalley BB7 9JN
Received 25 May 20171 Chapel Close Clitheroe BB7 2QT
Received 27 Apr 201763 Whalley Road Sabden BB7 9EA
Received 15 May 201720 Lindale Road Longridge PR3 3FT
Received 5 Jul 2017The Whalley Wine Shop Ltd 63 King Street Whalley BB7 9SW
Received 19 May 2017The Vicarage Crow Trees Brow Chatburn Lancs
Received 11 May 2005Records 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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