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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Brungerley Farm Clitheroe Road Waddington BB7 3HQ
Received 26 Sept 2017Lower Clerk Hill Clerk Hill Road Whalley BB7 9DR
Received 28 Sept 2017Land at Whiteacre Lane Barrow Lancashire BB7 9BJ
Received 26 Sept 2017Black Bull Hotel Church Street Ribchester
Received 28 Sept 2017Cowgill Farm Gisburn Road Sawley BB7 4LH
Received 20 Sept 2017Easterly Bungalow Old Roman Road Read BB7 9DS
Received 18 Sept 201752 Padiham Road Sabden Clitheroe BB7 9EX
Received 21 Sept 2017NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK plc, 8 BERRY LANE, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON
Received 20 Aug 2002Asturian House Asturian Gate Ribchester PR3 3XQ
Received 26 Sept 2017The Deer House Woodfold Park Further Lane Mellor Blackburn BB2 7QA
Received 26 Sept 2017Mason House Farm Clitheroe Road Bashall Eaves BB7 3DD
Received 29 Sept 2017Kinross Whitehalgh Lane Langho BB6 8ET
Received 20 Sept 2017Shackerley House Farm Preston New Road Mellor Blackburn BB2 7NP
Received 28 Sept 2017White Carr Farm Dilworth Bottoms Ribchester PR3 3ZB
Received 28 Sept 2017Back St Pauls Street Low Moor Clitheroe BB7 2LS
Received 25 Sept 2017Woodstraw Barn Forty Acre Lane Thornley with Wheatley PR3 2TT
Received 27 Sept 201710 Manor Road Clitheroe BB7 2LH
Received 26 Sept 2017Woodseave Barn Page Fold Off Cross Lane Waddington BB7 3JH
Received 2 Oct 2017NAT WEST BANK, YORK STREET, CLITHEROE, LANCS
Received 20 Aug 2002The Brambles Sawley Clitheroe BB7 4LE
Received 27 Sept 2017Four Acres Pendleton Road Wiswell BB7 9BZ
Received 2 Oct 2017Greenbanks Barn Moorside Lane Wiswell Clitheroe BB7 9DB
Received 2 Oct 2017Shireburn Barn Farm Longridge Road Hurst Green BB7 9QP
Received 26 Sept 2017Bromiley Ribchester Road Clayton le Dale BB1 9EG
Received 28 Sept 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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