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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Meadow Bank Stopper Lane Rimington BB7 4EJ
Received 25 Feb 2019Land opposite Ashbrook Ribblesdale Avenue Clitheroe BB7 2HZ
Received 27 Feb 2019Land at Barrow Brook Enterprise Park North Road Barrow BB7 9WF
Received 26 Feb 2019The Ale 3 Abbeycroft The Sands Whalley BB7 9TN
Received 27 Feb 2019Old Row Whalley Road Barrow BB7 9AZ
Received 27 Feb 2016Alker Bottoms Farm Brooklyn Road Wilpshire BB1 9PP
Received 7 Mar 2019Hillcrest 36 Rogersfield Langho BB6 8HB
Received 1 Mar 2019LAND AT LINCOLN PARK, SALTHILL INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, UPBROOKS, CLITHEROE
Received 3 Apr 200223 Pendleton Road Wiswell BB7 9DD
Received 28 Feb 2019The Workshop 27 Bawdlands Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 2LA
Received 18 Feb 2019The Old Brew House Gisburn Road Bolton By Bowland Lancashire BB7 4NP
Received 6 Mar 20192 Milnshaw Terrace Grindleton Clitheroe Lancashire
Received 11 Mar 201915 York Street Clitheroe BB7 2DH
Received 11 Mar 20195 The Woodlands Brockhall Village BB6 8BH
Received 7 Mar 20192 The Dene Hurst Green Clitheroe BB7 9QF
Received 7 Mar 20192 The Dene Hurst Green Clitheroe BB7 9QF
Received 7 Mar 2019Shireburn Caravan Park Ltd Edisford Road Clitheroe BB7 3LB
Received 12 Mar 201912 Old Back Lane Wiswell Nr Whalley BB7 9BS
Received 5 Mar 2019BOLTON HALL, PARKGATES, COPSTER GREEN
Received 2 Apr 20027A Market Place Clitheroe BB7 2BZ
Received 1 Mar 2019Burn Fell View (Pain Hill Farm Bungalow) Woodhouse Lane Slaidburn Clitheroe BB7 3AH
Received 1 Mar 2019Park Gates Stable Osbaldeston Lane Osbaldeston BB2 7LZ
Received 4 Mar 201921 Paris Ramsgreave BB1 9BJ
Received 5 Mar 2019Wilkinsons Farmhouse Simonstone Lane Simonstone Burnley BB12 7NX
Received 8 Mar 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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