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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Woodnook Moor Lane Whalley BB7 9JQ
Received 2 Oct 2017Pullman House 2-4 Duck Street Clitheroe BB7 1LP
Received 28 Sept 2017Plot 8 The Whins Whins Lane Read BB12 7QY
Received 29 Sept 201787 Birch Drive Shireburn Caravan Park Edisford Road Waddington BB7 3LB
Received 2 Oct 201712 Church View Gisburn BB7 4HG
Received 2 Oct 2017WALTON FOLD COTTAGE, WALTON FOLD LANE, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON
Received 20 Aug 200232 Woodcrest Wilpshire BB1 9PR
Received 3 Oct 2017High Laithe Barret Hill Brow Bolton by Bowland BB7 4PF
Received 3 Oct 201780 and 80A Birch Drive Shireburn Caravan Park Edisford Road Waddington BB7 3LB
Received 3 Oct 2017Land at the entrance to Whalley Industrial Park Clitheroe Road Barrow BB7 9AQ
Received 29 Sept 2017Eagle and Child 8 Whalley Road Hurst Green BB7 9QJ
Received 4 Oct 2017Land adjacent to 5 Beech Close Clitheroe BB7 2JH
Received 28 Sept 2017Shackerley House Farm Preston New Road Mellor BB2 7NP
Received 28 Sept 201726 Holden Street Clitheroe BB7 1LU
Received 28 Sept 201781 Ribchester Road Clayton Le Dale BB1 9HT
Received 28 Sept 20175 Barn Croft Clitheroe BB7 1DY
Received 26 Sept 20178 CRONSHAW DRIVE, LANGHO, BLACKBURN
Received 11 Sept 200237 Whalley Road Wilpshire BB1 9LQ
Received 20 Sept 2017Clitheroe WWTW Henthorn Road Clitheroe
Received 5 Oct 20179 Hippings Way Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 2PQ
Received 5 Oct 2017East Gate Cottage Whalley Abbey the Sands Whalley BB7 9SS
Received 3 Oct 201716 Brookside Langho BB6 8AP
Received 3 Oct 20174 St Nicholas Mews Sabden
Received 5 Oct 2017Hancock House Eaves Hall Lane West Bradford BB7 3JG
Received 5 Oct 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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