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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
23 Waterloo Road Clitheroe BB7 1NS
Received 31 May 201713 Old Row Whalley Road Barrow BB7 9AZ
Received 1 Jun 201719 Pendle Street West Sabden BB7 9EG
Received 30 May 2017Starbucks Subway Greggs KFC Barrow Brook Business Park Hey Road Barrow BB7 9WD
Received 31 May 201751 Park Avenue Clitheroe BB7 2HP
Received 31 May 2017Plane Tree Farm Chipping Road Chaigley BB7 3LT
Received 31 May 2017Beacon Cottage Commons Lane Balderstone BB2 7LN
Received 6 Jun 2017Ribchester Sports and Social Club Church Street Ribchester PR3 3YE
Received 6 Jun 201716 Sutherland Close Wilpshire BB1 9LT
Received 2 Jun 2017CHRIST CHURCH, SAWLEY ROAD, CHATBURN, CLITHEROE BB7 4AS
Received 11 Jun 200246 Ribchester Road Wilpshire BB1 9HU
Received 5 Jun 2017Granham House Barn Hothersall Lane Hothersall PR3 2XB
Received 5 Jun 2017Holden Clough Nursery Holden Bolton by Bowland BB7 4PF
Received 5 Jun 2017Eagle and Child 8 Whalley Road Hurst Green BB7 9QJ
Received 6 Jun 2017Acorn Lodge Longsight Road Clayton le Dale BB1 9EX
Received 6 Jun 20171 Abbey Road Whalley Lancashire BB7 9RP
Received 9 Jun 2017Land at lower knotts Knotts Lane Tosside BD23 4SJ
Received 6 Jun 2017Castlebank Straits Lane Read BB12 7PE
Received 6 Mar 2017Ribble Farm Fare Shay Lane Industrial Estate Shay Lane Longridge PR3 3BT
Received 6 Jun 2017Land south west of Barrow and west of Whalley Road Barrow
Received 9 Jun 2017THE LODGE, ADJACENT THE KNOLLE, 26 WHALLEY NEW ROAD, WILPSHIRE
Received 28 Mar 200233A Stonebridge Mill Preston Road Longridge PR3 3AN
Received 12 Jun 2017Land behind 56 Chapel Hill Longridge PR3 2YB
Received 9 Jun 2017Units 16 to 21 (Building D) Mitton Road Business Park Mitton Road Whalley BB7 9YE
Received 9 Jun 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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