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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
HORTON GRANGE, HORTON ROAD, HORTON IN CRAVEN, SKIPTON
Received 10 Jun 2002Keys Cottage 6 Main Street Bolton by Bowland Clitheroe BB7 4NW
Received 21 Feb 20192 Orchard Close Fort Avenue Ribchester PR3 3YS
Received 19 Feb 2019Moor Laithe Farm Blind Lane Gisburn BB7 4EU
Received 26 Feb 2019The Deer House Woodfold Park Further Lane Mellor Blackburn BB2 7QA
Received 21 Feb 20195 Waddow Grove Waddington BB7 3JL
Received 20 Feb 2019Rear of 14 & 18 The Grange on common land next to the wall
Received 27 Feb 201916 Highfield Drive Longridge PR3 3SN
Received 25 Feb 2019Camberley 2A Branch Road Mellor BB2 7NU
Received 13 Feb 2019Kitchen Green Farm Preston Road Ribchester PR3 3XL
Received 19 Feb 2019Sugar Hill Farm Whitewell Road Cow Ark BB7 3DG
Received 28 Feb 2019142 RIBCHESTER ROAD, CLAYTON-LE-DALE, BLACKBURN
Received 12 Jun 2002Land off Waddington Road Clitheroe BB7 2DE
Received 20 Feb 2019Edisford Bridge Farm Edisford Road Clitheroe BB7 3LJ
Received 19 Feb 201956 Pasturelands Drive Billington Lancashire BB7 9LW
Received 19 Feb 201930 Peel Park Avenue and land to the rear Clitheroe BB7 1ET
Received 27 Feb 2019Beacon Fell View Caravan Park Higher Road Longridge PR3 2TF
Received 25 Feb 2019The Works Back Main Street Gisburn BB7 4HE
Received 1 Mar 201910 Fell Brow Longridge Preston PR3 3RY
Received 27 Feb 2019Eavesmead Eaves Hall Lane West Bradford BB7 3JG
Received 26 Feb 201917 Ribblesdale View Chatburn BB7 4BB
Received 26 Feb 2019LAND AT REAR OF, 145-149 WHALLEY ROAD, CLITHEROE, LANCS
Received 12 Jun 2002Mill Cottage Victoria Terrace Mellor Brook BB2 7PL
Received 21 Feb 2019Southworth Green Farm Abbott Brow Mellor BB2 7HT
Received 25 Feb 2019Records 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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