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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Church Lane Whalley Clitheroe BB7 9SY
Received 20 Jul 2017Brennands Endowed Primary School Church Street Slaidburn BB7 3ER
Received 21 Jul 20175 LIMEFIELD AVENUE, WHALLEY, CLITHEROE BB7 9RJ
Received 11 Jun 2002Wallace House Lower Chapel Lane Grindleton BB7 4RN
Received 24 Jul 201726 Kemple View Clitheroe BB7 2QD
Received 27 Jul 2017Barn 1 Wheatley Farm Four Acre Lane Longridge PR3 2TD
Received 25 Jul 2017Peel Croft Holden Lane Bolton by Bowland BB7 4PB
Received 19 Jul 2017Land adj former Genus Site Mitton Road Whalley BB7 9JY
Received 27 Jul 2017Whalley Arms 60 King Street Whalley BB7 9SN
Received 4 Aug 2017Whalley Arms 60 King Street Whalley BB7 9SN
Received 4 Aug 2017White Horse Inn York Street Clitheroe BB7 2DH
Received 7 Aug 2017White Horse Inn York Street Clitheroe BB7 2DH
Received 4 Aug 2017The Old Vicarage Market Place Longridge PR3 3RR
Received 3 Aug 2017DOVEDALE, LOWER LANE, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON
Received 11 Jun 2002Land off Shay Lane Slaidburn Clitheroe BB7 3AG
Received 4 Aug 2017Land at Dry Corner Farm Padiham Road Sabden BB7 9EX
Received 3 Aug 2017Land to rear of 62 Branch Road , and between 24 - 30 Bosburn Drive, Mellor Brook BB2 7PA
Received 7 Aug 2017Units 4 and 5 Lincoln Park Industrial Site Lincoln Way Clitheroe BB7 1QD
Received 24 Jul 2017Providence House Preston Road Ribchester PR3 3YD
Received 3 Aug 20171A East View Terrace Langho BB6 8BX
Received 31 Jul 2017Rear of 62 Branch Road Mellor Brook Blackburn BB2 7NY
Received 7 Aug 2017Chew Mill Farm Elker Lane Billington BB7 9HZ
Received 20 Oct 20173 Main Street Bolton by Bowland Clitheroe BB7 4NW
Received 31 Jul 20172 Abbeycroft The Sands Whalley BB7 9TN
Received 9 Aug 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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