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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
OLD GREENWOODS FARM, LANE ENDS, BOLTON-BY-BOWLAND, CLITHEROE
Received 13 Sept 2002Barnsteads Barn Waddington Road West Bradford BB7 4SX
Received 30 Jul 2018Alker Bottoms Farm Brooklyn Road Wilpshire BB1 9PP
Received 30 Jul 2018Sagar Wood Birdy Brow Chaigley BB7 3LR
Received 27 Jul 201867 Berry Lane Longridge PR3 3NH
Received 30 Jul 2018Land adjacent to Dovecote Tearooms Mill Lane Waddington BB7 3JJ
Received 30 Jul 2018Club Farm Worston BB7 1QA
Received 30 Jul 2018Land to the north of Whalley Road Hurst Green BB7 9QH
Received 26 Jul 2018Watercliffe Cottage 10 Mellor Brook Mellor Brook BB2 7PH
Received 8 Aug 201895 RIBCHESTER ROAD, CLAYTON-LE-DALE, BLACKBURN
Received 13 Sept 2002Charnley Cottage Preston Road Longridge PR3 3BD
Received 26 Jul 2018Plot 3 The Knolle 26 Whalley Road Wilpshire BB1 9JT
Received 30 Jul 201815 York Street Clitheroe BB7 2DH
Received 29 Jul 2018Land off Whalley Road Hurst Green (adjacent to Reed Deep BB7 9QJ)
Received 30 Jul 201815 York Street Clitheroe BB7 2DH
Received 30 Jul 201855 Hillcrest Road Langho BB6 8EN
Received 19 Jun 2018Land off Henthorn Road Clitheroe BB7 2QF
Received 7 Aug 2018Plot 10 land rear of 15 Parker Avenue Clitheroe BB7 1JA
Received 27 Jul 201818 Parson Lane Clitheroe BB7 2JN
Received 31 Jul 201818 Parson Lane Clitheroe BB7 2JN
Received 31 Jul 20186 DALE VIEW, BILLINGTON, CLITHEROE
Received 16 Sept 2002Recreation Ground Sawley Road Grindleton BB7 4QS
Received 1 Aug 2018Thorneyholme Hall Staple Oak Dunsop Bridge BB7 3BB
Received 10 Aug 20185 Yew Gardens Shireburn Park Edisford Road Waddington Clitheroe BB7 3LB
Received 13 Aug 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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