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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Dewhurst Farm Longsight Road Langho BB6 8AD
Received 10 Aug 2017Barn at Greengates Farm Skipton Road Gisburn BB7 4HP
Received 31 Jul 2015Barrow Gardens Farm Whalley Road Barrow BB7 9BD
Received 3 Aug 2017Land adjacent to Black Hall Barn Garstang Road Chipping PR3 2QJ
Received 11 Aug 20173 Accrington Road Whalley BB7 9TD
Received 28 Jul 2017Pendle Ski Club Clitheroe Road Sabden BB7 9HN
Received 8 Aug 201739 Ribble Lane Chatburn BB7 4AG
Received 8 Aug 2017Land adjacent to Moorfield Avenue Ramsgreave BB1 9BU
Received 24 Jul 20179 WHITTINGHAM ROAD, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON
Received 11 Sept 2002Bridge Hey Wood Caravan Park Dunkirk Farm Read Lancashire
Received 8 Aug 2017Standen Hall Worston Road Clitheroe BB7 1PR
Received 31 Jul 2017White Horse Inn York Street Clitheroe BB7 2DH
Received 3 Aug 2017Mason House Farm Clitheroe Road Bashall Eaves BB7 3DD
Received 31 Jul 2017Eatoughs Farm Fleet Street Lane Ribchester PR3 3XE
Received 4 Aug 2017Brungerley Farm Clitheroe Road Waddington BB7 3HQ
Received 31 Aug 2017Mellor Village Hall Mellor Lane Mellor BB2 7EW
Received 7 Aug 20172 Eccles Terrace Grindleton BB7 4RD
Received 14 Aug 2017Harrop Gate Farm Harrop Fold Bolton by Bowland BB7 4PJ
Received 15 Aug 2017Seven Acre Bungalow Forty Acre Lane Longridge PR3 2TY
Received 14 Aug 2017BROAD INGS, ANNA LANE, BOLTON-BY-BOWLAND, NR. CLITHEROE
Received 9 Sept 2002Land in front of Pillings Cottage Coronation Gardens Grindleton Road West Bradford BB7 4TB
Received 17 Aug 2017Garden of 20 Abbey Fields Whalley BB7 9RS
Received 22 Aug 2017The Deer House Woodfold Park Mellor BB2 7QA
Received 18 Aug 2017Adjacent to 12 Manor Road Clitheroe
Received 18 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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