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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Low Farm Ribchester Road Clayton le Dale BB1 9EE
Received 25 Jan 2017land south west of Barrow and west of Whalley Road Barrow
Received 24 Jan 20177 CALDER VALE, WHALLEY, CLITHEROE BB7 9SR
Received 18 Oct 2001Land to the rear of 116 St Pauls Street Low Moor Clitheroe BB7 2LS
Received 26 Jan 201773 Berry Lane Longridge PR3 3WH
Received 31 Jan 2017Ribble Valley Remembrance Park Mitton Road Whalley
Received 26 Jan 201717 York Street Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 2DH
Received 30 Jan 201716 Roman Way Highmore Park Clitheroe BB7 1JF
Received 31 Jan 2017Taylors Bridge Whalley Road Billington
Received 30 Jan 201712 Langshaw Drive Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 1EY
Received 30 Jan 201724 Brooklands Chipping PR3 2QU
Received 31 Jan 201714 Pendle Drive Calderstones Park Whalley Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 9JT
Received 31 Jan 20171 Faraday Avenue Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 2LW
Received 1 Feb 20174 Pendleside Close Sabden Lancashire
Received 12 Apr 2005LANTERN COTTAGE, PENDLETON ROAD, WISWELL, CLITHEROE
Received 6 Nov 2001Rake Bottom Cottage Read Burnley Lancashire BB12 7RD
Received 30 Jan 2017Land adjacent to 52 Chapel Hill Longridge PR3 2YB
Received 30 Jan 2017Whins Barn Sabden BB7 9HP
Received 2 Feb 2017Hark to Bounty Inn Townend Slaidburn BB7 3EP
Received 2 Feb 2017Land adj former Genus Site Mitton Road Whalley BB7 9JY
Received 2 Feb 201743 Brook Villas Clitheroe Road Waddington BB7 3HN
Received 2 Feb 2017Acorn Barn Ribchester Road Clayton-Le-Dale BB1 9EY
Received 1 Feb 2017Land at Malt Kiln Brow Chipping PR3 2GP
Received 3 Feb 201723 Pendle Street East Sabden BB7 9EQ
Received 2 Feb 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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