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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
33 Littlemoor Road Clitheroe Lancashire
Received 12 May 2005LAND AT ALDERLEIGH, HENTHORN ROAD, CLITHEROE, BB7 2LD
Received 28 Nov 2001Stirk House Hotel Gisburn Road Gisburn BB7 4LJ
Received 20 Oct 2017Stirk House Hotel Gisburn Road Gisburn BB7 4LJ
Received 20 Oct 2017Stanworth House York Street Clitheroe BB7 2DH
Received 19 Oct 2017Stanworth House York Street Clitheroe BB7 2DH
Received 19 Oct 2017Pendle View Fisheries A59 Barrow BB7 9DH
Received 19 Oct 2017Pendle View Fisheries A59 Barrow BB7 9DH
Received 19 Oct 2017Land off Whalley Road Barrow
Received 23 Oct 201726 Kemple View Clitheroe BB7 2QD
Received 23 Oct 201744-46 King Street Clitheroe BB7 2EU
Received 26 Oct 2017Mullions 16 Wiswell Lane Whalley BB7 9AF
Received 25 Oct 2017MORETON PARK HOUSE, ACCRINGTON ROAD, WHALLEY, CLITHEROE
Received 29 Nov 2001Monks Contractors Ltd Myerscough Smithy Road Mellor Brook BB2 7LB
Received 31 Oct 2017Chapel Hill Trading Estate Chapel Hill Longridge PR3 3BU
Received 24 Oct 2017Bambers Bungalow Smalden Lane Lane Ends Bolton by Bowland BB7 4PH
Received 25 Oct 2016Land North of Bambers Bungalow Lane Ends Bolton by Bowland BB7 4PH
Received 25 Oct 2017Pendle View Lambing Clough Lane Hurst Green BB7 9QN
Received 26 Oct 2017Kitchen Green Farm Preston Road Ribchester PR3 3XL
Received 26 Oct 2017Land to rear of Bellway Development Hayhurst Road Whalley
Received 27 Oct 2017Windmill Hotel Preston New Road Mellor Brook BB2 7NS
Received 2 Nov 2017Browsholme Hall Clitheroe Road Whitewell BB7 3DE
Received 27 Oct 2017Lyme House Farm Thornley with Wheatley PR3 2TE
Received 24 Oct 2017UNIT 1, KING LANE, CLITHEROE, BB7 1AA
Received 29 Nov 2001Records 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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