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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Parsons Croft Slaidburn Road Waddington BB7 3JQ
Received 6 Jul 2018Orchard Cottage Waddington BB7 3HR
Received 9 Jul 2018The Lodge Stonyhurst College Avenue Road Hurst Green BB7 9PZ
Received 4 Jul 2018Good Heys Farm Up Bedlam Road Thornley with Wheatley PR3 2TL
Received 20 Jun 2018Bay Gate Farm Barret Hill Brow Bolton by Bowland BB7 4PQ
Received 27 Jun 2018School House Cottage Newton in Bowland BB7 3DY
Received 26 Jun 2018Till House Barn Smalden Lane Grindleton BB7 4RX
Received 5 Jul 2018The Coach House 26 Whalley Road Wilpshire BB1 9JT
Received 10 Jul 20182 PENDLESIDE CLOSE, SABDEN, CLITHEROE
Received 20 Aug 2002Westholme Longsight Road Copster Green BB1 9EU
Received 10 Jul 2018St Marys RC Primary School Whalley Road Langho BB6 8EQ
Received 11 Jul 201871 Riverside Clitheroe BB7 2NS
Received 9 Jul 2018Dunbia (Sawley) Castil Laithe Abattoir Gisburn Road Sawley BB7 4LH
Received 6 Jul 201829 Limefield Avenue Whalley BB7 9RJ
Received 6 Jul 2018Wymondhouses Farm Pendleton Road Wiswell BB7 1PS
Received 4 Jul 201823 Eskdale Road Longridge PR3 3ER
Received 17 Jul 2018Outbuildings adjacent to Hammond Drive Read BB12 7RE
Received 11 Jul 2018Mason House Farm Clitheroe Road Bashall Eaves BB7 3DD
Received 11 Jul 201869 Knowsley Road Wilpshire BB1 9PN
Received 2 Jul 20183 CLARKE WOOD CLOSE, WISWELL, CLITHEROE
Received 20 Aug 2002Thornley Hall Farm Thornley with Wheatley Longridge PR3 2TN
Received 13 Jul 20185 West View Terrace Whalley Road Billington BB7 9LT
Received 2 Jul 2016R E Dawson Ltd and Maxwells 54-56 King Street Clitheroe BB7 2EU
Received 13 Jul 2018The Hey Beechthorpe Avenue Waddington BB7 3HT
Received 13 Jul 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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