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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land to the side of The Ale 3 Abbeycroft The Sands Whalley BB7 9TN
Received 17 Jun 2019Sheepfold Farm Balderstone Hall Lane Balderstone BB2 7LA
Received 12 Jun 2019Land off Longsight Road Langho
Received 11 Jun 2019Laneside Farm Grindleton Road West Bradford BB7 4QH
Received 10 Jun 2019GAMBLE HOLE FARM, BACK LANE, NEWTON, NR CLITHEROE
Received 27 Sept 2001The Stables Grimbaldeston Farm Preston Road Longridge PR3 3BD
Received 8 May 2019The Hawthorns Settle Lane Paythorne BB7 4JD
Received 10 Jun 2019Mulberry Grange Cross Hill Lane Rimington BB7 4EE
Received 12 Jun 2019Adjacent behind 25 Deer Park Crescent Whalley BB7 9XH
Received 13 Jun 201915 Westfield Drive West Bradford BB7 4TF
Received 10 Jun 2019Wiswell Moor Houses Farm Clerk Hill Road Sabden BB7 9FQ
Received 7 Jun 2019Plane Tree Farm Chipping Road Chaigley BB7 3LT
Received 13 Jun 2019The Ale 3 Abbeycroft The Sands Whalley BB7 9TN
Received 18 Jun 2019Winton 145 Whalley Road Wilpshire BB1 9NE
Received 13 Jun 2019Ghyll Seeds Farm Knotts Lane Bolton by Bowland BD23 4SJ
Received 18 Jun 2019New Barn Whalley Road Stonyhurst Clitheroe Lancs
Received 14 Jun 2005SLAIDBURN HEALTH CENTRE, TOWN END, SLAIDBURN, CLITHEROE BB7 3EP
Received 27 Sept 2001land between Clitheroe Road and A59/A671 roundabout junction Barrow BB7 9AD
Received 14 Jun 2019Land rear of Rocklea and Standridge Whalley Road Billington BB7 9NA
Received 14 Jun 201930 Peel Park Avenue and land to the rear Clitheroe BB7 1ET
Received 12 Jun 201915 York Street Clitheroe BB7 2DH
Received 3 Jun 2019Meadow Head Farm Hothersall Lane Hothersall PR3 2XB
Received 12 Jun 2019Grove House Malt Kiln Brow Chipping PR3 2GP
Received 24 Jun 2019Ramsgreave Hall Farm Higher Ramsgreave Road Ramsgreave BB1 9DQ
Received 17 Jun 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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