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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Moorend Cottages Ribchester Road Dinckley BB6 8AJ
Received 3 Jun 2019Three Millstones Inn Waddington Road West Bradford BB7 4SX
Received 14 Jun 2019Vacant land adjacent to Park Street Play Area Park Street Clitheroe
Received 18 Jun 2019CANDLEMAKERS CROFT, LOWERGATE, CLITHEROE, LANCS
Received 27 Sept 2001Oakhaven Showley Road Clayton le Dale BB1 9DP
Received 17 Jun 2019Manor Laithe Kiln Lane Paythorne BB7 4JD
Received 17 Jun 2019Hillcrest Farm Startifants Lane Chipping PR3 2NP
Received 18 Jun 2019Off Old Langho Road Billington and Langho BB6 8AR
Received 21 Jun 2019Horrocksford Old Hall West Bradford Road Clitheroe BB7 4QD
Received 21 Jun 2019Pewter House Farm Carr Lane Balderstone BB2 7LN
Received 26 Jun 2019Holmes Mill Greenacre Street Clitheroe BB7 1EB
Received 19 Jun 2019Holmes Mill Greenacre Street Clitheroe BB7 1EB
Received 26 Jun 2019Aureol House Pendle Street East Sabden BB7 9EQ
Received 20 Jun 2019Simonstone Hall Whalley Road Simonstone BB12 7HW
Received 18 Jun 2019PLOT 12A, SITE ADJACENT NURSERY, BROCKHALL VILLAGE, OLD LANGHO ROAD, OLD LANGHO, BLACKBURN
Received 28 Sept 200125 Greenacres Read Burnley BB12 7PT
Received 4 Jun 2019Orchard Cottage Clerk Hill Road Sabden BB7 9FR
Received 20 Jun 2019Barn at Horton Grange Farm Horton Skipton BD23 3JT
Received 25 Jun 2019Foxfields Farm Whalley Road Hurst Green BB7 9PN
Received 17 Jun 20194 Berry Lane Longridge PR3 3JB
Received 9 Jun 20194 Gleneagles Drive Brockhall Village Old Langho BB6 8BF
Received 1 Jul 201977 Mitton Road Whalley Clitheroe BB7 9JN
Received 19 Jun 2019Land north of household waste recycling centre Chapel Hill Longridge
Received 1 Jul 201926 Mytton View Clitheroe BB7 2QE
Received 20 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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