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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.
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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Orangery Woodfold Park Mellor BB2 7QA
Received 1 Mar 20191A Whalley Tennis Club Mitton Road Whalley BB7 9RX
Received 8 Mar 2019Land off Ribblesdale View Chatburn
Received 6 Mar 2019Greenlands Ribchester Road Ribchester PR3 3XA
Received 7 Mar 20191 THE OLD COACH HOUSE, WISWELL LANE, WHALLEY, CLITHEROE
Received 2 Apr 2002Bowland Court Lowergate Clitheroe BB7 1AS
Received 12 Mar 2019Greystock Inglewhite Road Longridge PR3 2NA
Received 14 Mar 201920 Pendle Drive Calderstones Park Whalley
Received 14 Mar 2019Land adjacent to Woodfold Hall Further Lane Mellor BB2 7QA
Received 5 Mar 201910 St Peters Close Clayton le Dale BB1 9HH
Received 11 Mar 2019New House Farm Chipping Road Chaigley BB7 3LX
Received 14 Mar 201924 St Peters Close Clayton le Dale BB1 9HH
Received 12 Mar 201914 Clayton Court Longridge PR3 3UD
Received 13 Mar 201918 St Peters Close Clayton le Dale BB1 9HH
Received 14 Mar 201986 Mitton Road Whalley BB7 9JN
Received 13 Mar 2019STEPHEN PARK, HOLE HOUSE LANE, GISBURN FOREST, TOSSIDE
Received 2 Apr 2002Land adjacent to Woodfold Hall Further Lane Mellor BB2 7QA
Received 1 Mar 201918 College Close Longridge PR3 3AX
Received 14 Mar 2019Land to the rear of 16 Victoria Court Chatburn BB7 4BF
Received 13 Feb 2019The Beeches Eastham House Farm Great Mitton BB7 9PH
Received 14 Mar 20192 Longridge Road Hurst Green BB7 9QP
Received 11 Mar 201916 Warwick Drive Clitheroe BB7 2BG
Received 11 Mar 20196 Stubbins Lane Sabden BB7 9EP
Received 12 Mar 201977 Waddington Road Clitheroe BB7 2HN
Received 12 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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