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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Dower House Park Road Gisburn BB7 4HT
Received 23 Mar 2018Springfield House 3 Springfield Close Whalley BB7 9BW
Received 26 Mar 2018Pack Horse Garage Mellor Brow Mellor Brook
Received 26 Mar 2018Myerscough Hotel Myerscough Smithy Road Balderstone BB2 7LE
Received 19 Mar 2018LAND AT, HILLSIDE FARM, WHALLEY ROAD, SABDEN, CLITHEROE
Received 26 Mar 2002land at Waddow Hall Guide Camp Waddow Hall Waddington Road Clitheroe BB7 3LD
Received 21 Mar 201858 and 60 Pasturelands Drive Billington BB7 9LW
Received 26 Mar 2018Land adj Woodfold Park Farm Further Lane Mellor
Received 29 Mar 201810 Knowsley Road Wilpshire BB1 9PX
Received 26 Mar 201899 Ribchester Road Clayton le Dale BB1 9HT
Received 9 Apr 2018The Hollies 85 Whalley Road Wilpshire BB1 9LN
Received 27 Mar 2018Highway Verge Pimlico Road Clitheroe
Received 29 Mar 201835 Moor Lane/125 Lowergate Clitheroe BB7 1BE
Received 10 Apr 2018Stephen Moor Lodge Wigglesworth Road Slaidburn BD23 4SY
Received 27 Mar 2018Annex and beauty and massage facility 15 The Drive Brockhall Village Langho BB6 8BJ
Received 9 Apr 2018HORTON CHAPEL, HORTON ROAD, HORTON IN CRAVEN, SKIPTON
Received 28 Mar 2002Waddow Hall Waddington Road Clitheroe BB7 3LD
Received 6 Apr 2018Sykes Holt Myerscough Road Mellor Brook BB2 7LB
Received 5 Apr 2018Bright Angel Farm Moor Lane Whalley BB7 9JQ
Received 11 Apr 2018Fellside Birdy Brow Stonyhurst Clitheroe BB7 9QY
Received 14 Mar 2018Land at Barrow Brook Enterprise Park North Road Barrow BB7 9WF
Received 29 Mar 2018Yorkfield York Lane Langho BB6 8DT
Received 28 Mar 2018The Barn Turner Fold Read BB12 7QZ
Received 28 Mar 2018Sykes Holt Myerscough Road Mellor Brook BB2 7LB
Received 29 Mar 2018Records 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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