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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 19 Dec 2017Land off Whalley Road Hurst Green (adjacent to Reed Deep BB7 9QJ)
Received 19 Dec 2017The Moorcock Inn Slaidburn Road Waddington BB7 3AA
Received 22 Dec 2017Causeway Farm Longsight Road Balderstone BB2 7HZ
Received 21 Dec 201725 MELLOR BROOK, MELLOR, BLACKBURN BB2 7PH
Received 21 Feb 2002Monks Contractors Ltd Myerscough Smithy Road Mellor Brook BB2 7LB
Received 22 Dec 2017Granham House Barn Hothersall Lane Hothersall PR3 2XB
Received 21 Dec 2017Thornley Hall Farm Thornley-with-Wheatley Longridge Preston PR3 2TN
Received 22 Dec 2017Shackerley House Farm Preston New Road Mellor BB2 7NP
Received 22 Dec 201712 Balmoral Avenue Clitheroe BB7 2QH
Received 22 Dec 2017Highmoor Farm Highmoor Clitheroe BB7 1PN
Received 21 Dec 2017Drivers Walk off Berry Lane Longridge
Received 21 Dec 2017Cherry Tree Farm Chipping Road Chaigley Clitheroe BB7 3LX
Received 21 Dec 2017TMG Sports Vehicles Building D (Units 16 to 21) Mitton Road Business Park Mitton Road Whalley BB7 9JY
Received 22 Dec 2017Key Hills Martin Top Lane Rimington BB7 4EG
Received 22 Dec 2017LAND AT, BRICK HOUSE, CHIPPING, PRESTON PR3 2QH
Received 16 Oct 2002Land off Clitheroe Road Barrow Clitheroe BB7 9AQ
Received 22 Dec 2017Berry Lane Medical Centre Berry Lane Longridge PR3 3JJ
Received 21 Dec 2017Hollins House Clerk Hill Road Whalley Lancashire BB7 9FR
Received 1 Dec 2017Shackerley House Farm Preston New Road Mellor BB2 7NP
Received 9 Jan 201823 Church Street Clitheroe BB7 2DD
Received 9 Nov 2017Hanson Cement Ribblesdale Quarry West Bradford Road Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 4QF
Received 9 Jan 2018Fooden Old Hall Farm Fooden Lane Bolton by Bowland BB7 4LS
Received 15 Jan 2018Lower Clerk Hill Farm Clerk Hill Road Whalley BB7 9DR
Received 10 Jan 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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