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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Brambles Vicarage Lane Wilpshire BB1 9HY
Received 4 Sept 2017FIELD NO 0024, OFF FIDDLERS LANE, CHIPPING, PRESTON
Received 7 Oct 2002Stoneycroft and Windshadow Avenue Road Hurst Green BB7 9QB
Received 11 Sept 2017Land adj Grindleton Brook Grindleton Road Grindleton
Received 5 Sept 2017Chapel Hill Trading Estate Chapel Hill Longridge PR3 3BU
Received 11 Sept 20179 Jubilee Street Read BB12 7PR
Received 13 Sept 2017Willowcroft Sawley Road Sawley BB7 4LE
Received 6 Sept 2017Brooklyne Preston Road Ribchester PR3 3YA
Received 5 Sept 2017The Flat 8 10 Whalley Road SabdenBB7 9DZ
Received 1 Sept 201739 Clitheroe Road Whalley BB7 9AD
Received 5 Sept 201711 Langdale Avenue Clitheroe BB7 2PG
Received 5 Sept 2017Stables Barn Mill Lane Slaidburn Road Waddington BB7 3JJ
Received 4 Sept 2017LAND ADJACENT TO, BANK HALL HOUSE, SAWLEY ROAD, SAWLEY, CLITHEROE
Received 19 Jul 200270 - 72 Waterloo Road Clitheroe BB7 1NS
Received 6 Sept 2017Laneside Sawley Road Chatburn Clitheroe BB7 4LD
Received 11 Sept 2017Greendale Restaurant Downham Road Chatburn BB7 4DL
Received 11 Sept 2017Land at Chapel Hill Longridge
Received 12 Sept 2017Land adjacent to The Beeches 65 Whalley Road Langho BB6 8EF
Received 11 Sept 2017Lowood Whins Lane Read BB12 7RB
Received 13 Sept 2017Hillside Special School Ribchester Road Ribchester PR3 3XB
Received 14 Sept 2017Lower Standen Hey Farm Whalley Road Clitheroe BB7 1PP
Received 13 Sept 2017101 Chatburn Road Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 2BD
Received 6 Sept 2017Ghylls Cottage Knotts Lane Bolton By Bowland BD23 4SJ
Received 6 Sept 2017TYTHE BARN, STATION ROAD, RIMINGTON, CLITHEROE BB7 4DR
Received 22 Jul 2002Records 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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