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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Harwood Fold Farm Off Showley Road Clayton le Dale BB1 9DR
Received 11 Apr 2018PARKGATE, OSBALDESTON LANE, OSBALDESTON, BLACKBURN
Received 23 Apr 2002Croftlands Broad Meadow Chipping PR3 2GH
Received 4 Apr 2018Land East of Chipping Lane Longridge
Received 11 Apr 2018Burnslack Farm Twins Brook Road Chipping PR3 2QR
Received 23 Apr 20187 Somerset Avenue Wilpshire BB1 9JD
Received 5 Apr 2018Lower Monubent Barn Hellifield Road Bolton by Bowland BB7 4LY
Received 14 Apr 2018The Orangery Woodfold Park Mellor BB2 7QA
Received 11 Apr 2018Land opposite Woodfield Garage Longsight Road Clayton le Dale BB2 7JA
Received 10 Apr 2018Newton Hall Back Lane Newton BB7 3DY
Received 29 Mar 2018Newton Hall Back Lane Newton BB7 3DY
Received 29 Mar 201816 Hayhurst Road Whalley BB7 9RL
Received 16 Apr 2018FERNSIDE BARN, HIGHER TWISTON, CLITHEROE, LANCS
Received 23 Apr 20027 The Dales Langho Blackburn BB6 8BW
Received 19 Apr 2018Land to the rear of Bay Horse Inn Osbaldeston Lane BB2 7HX
Received 13 Apr 2018Land at Malt Kiln Brow Chipping PR3 2GP
Received 11 Apr 2018Land at Malt Kiln Brow Chipping PR3 2GP
Received 11 Apr 2018Land to the north of Whalley Road Hurst Green (between Warren Fold and School Lane comprising part field and school car park) Clitheroe BB7 9QH
Received 17 Apr 2018Rear of 62 Branch Road Mellor Brook BB2 7NY between 24 and 30 Bosburn Drive BB2 7PA
Received 13 Apr 201825 Strawberry Fields Gisburn BB7 4DQ
Received 16 Apr 201833 Mayfield Avenue Clitheroe BB7 1LE
Received 20 Apr 2018James Alpe Vehicle Sales Peel Street Clitheroe BB7 1RA
Received 3 Apr 2018Homestead Higher Commons Lane Balderstone Lancashire BB2 7LR
Received 10 Apr 201851 WARWICK DRIVE, CLITHEROE, BB7 2BG
Received 23 Apr 2002Records 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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