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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Raven Lodge 12 Ribchester Road Wilpshire BB1 9JH
Received 17 Sept 20189 Greenside Ribchester PR3 3ZJ
Received 18 Sept 2018The Ridge Highcliffe Greaves Grindleton BB7 4QT
Received 17 Sept 2018Sagar Fold House Clitheroe Lane Withgill Great Mitton BB7 3LW
Received 18 Sept 2018The Old Vicarage Lower Lane longridge Preston PR3 3SL
Received 17 Sept 2018Mayfield Ribchester Road Clayton le Dale BB1 9EE
Received 19 Sept 2018MIDDLE BARN, NOOK LANE, BOLTON-BY-BOWLAND, CLITHEROE
Received 26 Sept 2001Cherry Drive Brockhall Village
Received 20 Sept 20181 Beaufort Close Read BB12 7QF
Received 18 Sept 2018Former Household Waste Recycling Centre off Whalley Road Langho BB6 8AB
Received 17 Sept 2018Alston Lodge Lower Lane Longridge Preston PR3 2YH
Received 19 Sept 20186 Top Row Sabden Clitheroe BB7
Received 20 Sept 201822a Waddow Grove Waddington BB7 3JL
Received 18 Sept 2018Standen Hall Worston Road Clitheroe BB7 1PR
Received 18 Sept 201815 Bridge End Whalley Road Billington BB7 9NU
Received 20 Sept 2018Barrow Primary School Old Row Whalley Road Barrow BB7 9AZ
Received 20 Sept 2018Land off Longsight Road Langho
Received 20 Sept 2018FEILDENS ARMS, WHALLEY ROAD, MELLOR BROOK, BLACKBURN
Received 26 Sept 2001Newfield Edge Hall Farm Burnley Road Gisburn BB7 4JN
Received 20 Sept 2018Newfield Edge Hall Farm Burnley Road Gisburn BB7 4JN
Received 20 Sept 201814 Netherwood Gardens Brockhall Village Langho Lancashire
Received 24 Sept 201829 Limefield Avenue Whalley BB7 9RJ
Received 19 Sept 2018Land to South-West of Barrow and West of Whalley Road Barrow Lancashire
Received 20 Sept 2018Former Victoria Mill Watt Street Sabden BB7 9ED
Received 21 Sept 2018Records 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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