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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Camberley 2A Branch Road Mellor BB2 7NU
Received 27 Oct 2017Tilberthwaite Snodworth Road Langho
Received 24 Oct 2017Parsonage Farm York Road Wilpshire BB1 4AE
Received 30 Oct 2017Wards Fold Farm Abbott Brow Mellor BB2 7HU
Received 30 Oct 2017Banks House Back Lane Chipping PR3 2QA
Received 23 Oct 2017The Ale 3 Abbeycroft The Sands Whalley BB7 9TN
Received 25 Oct 2017Unit A to C UpBrooks Clitheroe BB7 1PL
Received 23 Oct 2017Susie Cottage Rimington Lane Rimington BB7 4DT
Received 26 Oct 2017104 Beech Mount Waddington BB7 3HS
Received 30 Oct 2017Middle Warble Hey Bungalow Long Row Mellor BB2 7EF
Received 23 Oct 2017LAND ADJOINING, CLAREMONT DRIVE, CLITHEROE, BB7 1JW
Received 29 Nov 2001The Red Pump Inn Clitheroe Road Bashall Eaves BB7 3DA
Received 26 Oct 20172 Glendene Park Knowsley Road Wilpshire BB1 9JQ
Received 2 Nov 2017Snowhite Laundrette 46 Eshton Terrace Clitheroe BB7 1BQ
Received 30 Oct 2017Land 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 26 Oct 2017Thirlmere 69 Whalley Road Langho BB6 8EF
Received 6 Nov 2017Specialised Automotive Services Garage rear of Pendle Street East Sabden BB7 9FX
Received 27 Oct 2017Land to the rear of the Black Horse Inn Pimlico Road Clitheroe BB7 4PZ
Received 30 Oct 2017Land to the rear of 24 and 26 Highwoods Park Brockhall Village Old Langho BB6 8HN
Received 1 Nov 2017Long Holme Row Gisburn Road Sawley BB7 4LH
Received 3 Nov 2017Cibola Main Street Pendleton Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 1PT
Received 1 Nov 2017THE OLD CO-OP BUILDING, HENTHORN ROAD, CLITHEROE, BB7 2LD
Received 29 Nov 2001Oxendale Hall Farm Osbaldeston Lane Osbaldeston BB2 7LZ
Received 31 Oct 2017Woodhouse Gate Farm Catlow Road Slaidburn BB7 3AQ
Received 20 Nov 2017Records 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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