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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Holmes Mill Greenacre Street Clitheroe BB7 1EB
Received 21 Mar 2017Land south west of Montgomerie Gardens Clitheroe
Received 20 Mar 2017Land at Mitton Road Whalley
Received 16 Mar 2017Nabside Farm Moor Lane Whalley BB7 9JQ
Received 27 Mar 2017St Wilfrids Churchyard Riverside Ribchester
Received 21 Mar 2017Holmes Mill Greenacre Street Clitheroe BB7 1EB
Received 21 Mar 20173 Fell View Whalley Clitheroe BB7 9UL
Received 22 Mar 201762 Moor Lane Clitheroe BB7 1AJ
Received 21 Mar 20177 DAWSON AVENUE, SIMONSTONE, BURNLEY
Received 21 Mar 2002At the junction between Cherry Drive and Gleneagles Drive and opposite the roundabout adjacent to the hotel on Gleneagles Drive Brockhall Village Old Langho BB6
Received 24 Mar 2017Ribble View Barn Alston Lane Longridge PR3 3BN
Received 22 Mar 2017Tan Yard Tan Yard Lane Longridge PR3 3TA
Received 21 Mar 2017Highmoor Playing Fields off Pendle Road Clitheroe BB7 1LL
Received 3 Apr 20178 Lyndale Close Wilpshire Lancashire BB1 9LX
Received 3 Apr 2017Dwelling (Class Q(b) only)Dewhurst Farm Longsight Road Langho Blackburn BB6 8AD
Received 30 Mar 2017Morton House Birdy Brow Clitheroe BB7 9QY
Received 17 Mar 20173 Kingsmill Avenue Whalley Lancashire BB7 9PG
Received 24 Mar 2017Moor Nook Farm Clitheroe Road Ribchester Lancashire PR3 2YS
Received 1 Mar 2016Park Nook Hellifield Road Bolton by Bowland BB7 4LU
Received 29 Mar 2017White Bull Hotel Preston Road Longridge Lancashire
Received 26 Apr 2005ROOKWOOD, CLITHEROE ROAD, WHALLEY, CLITHEROE
Received 21 Mar 20028 Masterson Avenue Read Burnley BB12 7PL
Received 22 Mar 2017Land adjacent to Time Technology Park Blackburn Road (A678) Simonstone BB12 7TY
Received 20 Mar 20171 Abbey Road Whalley Lancashire BB7 9RP
Received 27 Mar 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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