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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Harkers Farm Catlow Road Slaidburn Clitheroe BB7 3AQ
Received 11 Sept 2018Over Hacking Farm Knowles Brow Hurst Green BB7 9PY
Received 7 Sept 201811A Whittingham Road Longridge PR3 2AA
Received 7 Sept 201810 Risedale Drive Longridge Lancashire PR3 3SA
Received 11 Sept 201825 Blackburn Road Ribchester PR3 3ZP
Received 12 Sept 201818 College Close Longridge PR3 3AX
Received 11 Sept 2018The Brows Farm Brows Barn Higher Road Longridge PR3 2YX
Received 12 Sept 20181 Beckside Cottages The Skaithe Slaidburn BB7 3EU
Received 12 Sept 2018Little Town Farm Chipping Road Longridge PR3 2TB
Received 14 Sept 201878 ROGERSFIELD, LANGHO, BLACKBURN
Received 25 Sept 200139 Castle View Clitheroe BB7 2DT
Received 12 Sept 20183 Stanley Close Longridge PR3 3SE
Received 10 Sept 2018Land adjacent to Time Technology Park Blackburn Road (A678) Simonstone BB12 7TY
Received 14 Sept 2018Overdale Dilworth Lane Longridge PR3 3ST
Received 10 Sept 2018Clend Farm (formerly Cocklick End Farm) School Lane Dalehead Slaidburn Clitheroe BB7 4TS
Received 14 Sept 2018Sudells Farm Northcote Road Langho BB6 8BD
Received 14 Sept 2018Longridge Golf Club Forty Acre Farm Forty Acre Lane Longridge PR3 2TU
Received 11 Sept 2018Land at Roe Lee off Ramsgreave Drive Blackburn
Received 14 Sept 2018Wiswell Eaves House Pendleton road Wiswell BB7 9BZ
Received 14 Sept 2018HILL TOP, HIGHER CHAPEL LANE, GRINDLETON, CLITHEROE
Received 24 Sept 2001Hancock House Eaves Hall Lane West Bradford BB7 3JG
Received 14 Sept 2018Wiswell Eaves House Pendleton road Wiswell BB7 9BZ
Received 14 Sept 201838 Glendale Drive Mellor Blackburn BB2 7HD
Received 14 Sept 2018Springside Farm Knotts Lane Tosside BD23 4SJ
Received 14 Sept 2018Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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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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