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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land adj Black Horse Inn Pimlico Road Clitheroe BB7 4PZ
Received 4 Jun 2018Land adjacent to 17 Brookes Lane Whalley BB7 9RG
Received 4 Jun 2018Long Acre Whalley Road Pendleton Lancashire BB7 1PP
Received 8 Jun 2018Woodcroft Cottage 36 Pendleton Road Wiswell BB7 9DD
Received 1 Jun 201832 Pendle View Brockhall Village Old Langho BB6 8AT
Received 8 Jun 2018BUILDING ADJACENT TO MANOR HOUSE, RIMINGTON LANE, RIMINGTON, NR CLITHEROE
Received 8 Oct 20026 Pendle View Brockhall Village Old Langho BB6 8AT
Received 11 Jun 2018Wilkinson Fold Twiston lane Twiston BB7 4DB
Received 5 Jun 2018Beech Grove St Pauls Street Clitheroe BB7 2LS
Received 11 Jun 20185 Conway Avenue Clitheroe BB7 2QG
Received 5 Jun 2018The Birches 20 Highfield Drive Longridge PR3 3SN
Received 6 Jun 2018Cowgill House Gisburn Road Sawley BB7 4LH
Received 8 Jun 201810 Whitewell Drive Clitheroe BB7 2NY
Received 12 Jun 2018Fooden Old Hall Farm Fooden Lane Bolton by Bowland BB7 4LS
Received 11 Jun 20184 Tucker Hill Clitheroe BB7 2NR
Received 11 Jun 201815 Bosburn Drive Mellor Brook BB2 7PA
Received 5 Jun 20181 PROVENCE AVENUE, BROCKHALL VILLAGE, OLD LANGHO
Received 8 Oct 20022 HOLLOWHEAD CLOSE, WILPSHIRE, BB1 9LE
Received 6 Jun 2018Tover House Osbaldeston Lane Blackburn BB2 7LT
Received 8 Jun 2018The Moorcock Inn Slaidburn Road Waddington BB7 3AA
Received 5 Jun 2018The Stables rear of King Street Whalley BB7 9SP
Received 5 Jun 2018Clitheroe Health Centre Railway View Road Clitheroe BB7 2JG
Received 12 Jun 201831 Dale View Billington BB7 9LL
Received 11 Jun 2018The Avenue Hotel Gleneagles Drive Brockhall Village Old Langho BB6 8AY
Received 11 May 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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