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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bramley Croft Clitheroe Road Whalley BB7 9AQ
Received 11 Jul 2019Croasdale Farm 1 Whinney Lane Langho BB6 8DQ
Received 5 Jul 201912 Church Brow Gardens Clitheroe BB7 2AB
Received 10 Jul 2019Land South of Blackburn Road Hothersall PR3 2YY
Received 11 Jul 2019Copy Nook Farm Bolton by Bowland Road Bolton by Bowland BB7 4NL
Received 12 Jul 20193 Whitewell Drive Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 2NY
Received 6 Jul 2004Horrocks Barn Horrocks Farm Stonyhurst Clitheroe Lancs
Received 14 Jun 20054 OLIVE BANK, LANGHO, BLACKBURN
Received 30 Jul 2001Land at Pendle Trading Estate Clitheroe Road Chatburn BB7 4JY
Received 16 Jul 2019Raven Lodge 12 Ribchester Road Wilpshire BB1 9JH
Received 3 Jul 201934 Painter Wood Whalley Old Road Billington BB7 9JD
Received 15 Jul 2019Land to the South of 5 Chapel Brow Longridge
Received 8 Jul 201965 St Marys Gardens Mellor BB2 7JP
Received 15 Jul 2019Withinreap Barn Moss Side Lane Thornley PR3 2ND
Received 16 Jul 20191 Laneside Cottages Whalley Road Sabden BB7 9DU
Received 15 Jul 2019Clitheroe Golf Club Whalley Road Pendleton BB7 1PP
Received 12 Jul 20192 Sycamore Walk Clitheroe BB7 1JA
Received 15 Jul 201942 THE HAZELS, WILPSHIRE, BLACKBURN BB1 9HZ
Received 30 Jul 20017 Glendene Park Clayton le Dale BB1 9JQ
Received 17 Jul 2019The barn Rakebottom George Lane Read BB12 7qy
Received 18 Jul 2019Land to North Of Dilworth Lane Longridge PR3 3ST
Received 11 Jul 2019North side of B6478 East of Longtons Lane Tosside
Received 19 Jul 2019Land at Petre Wood Close Langho BB6 8FD
Received 12 Jul 201934 Painter Wood Whalley Old Road Billington BB7 9JD
Received 15 Jul 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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