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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 adj nos 26 to 38 Tintagel Way Clitheroe BB7 2RL
Received 10 Oct 2018Black Horse Inn Pimlico Road Clitheroe BB7 4PZ
Received 21 Aug 2018Key Hills Martin Top Lane Rimington BB7 4EG
Received 15 Oct 2018Meadowside Barn Whalley Road Wilpshire BB1 9LN
Received 11 Oct 2018The Coach House Clitheroe Road Waddington BB7 3HQ
Received 15 Oct 2018148 Shireburn Park Edisford Road Clitheroe BB7 3LB
Received 15 Oct 2018Land south west of Barrow and west of Whalley Road Barrow
Received 9 Oct 201829 Deer Park Crescent Whalley BB7 9XH
Received 16 Oct 2018Abbey Barn 10 Nethertown Close Whalley BB7 9SF
Received 8 Oct 2018GLEBE HOUSE BARN, ADJACENT KIRK MEWS, GISBURN ROAD, BOLTON BY BOWLAND, CLITHEROE BB7 4NP
Received 27 Jul 2001The Hey Beechthorpe Avenue Waddington BB7 3HT
Received 15 Oct 20182 Plum Tree cottages Orchard Cottages Branch Road Waddington Clitheroe BB7 3HR
Received 12 Oct 20182 Huntsmans Cottages Woodfold Park Mellor BB2 7QA
Received 9 Oct 2018Willow Barn Rock Brow Longridge Preston PR3 2TN
Received 17 Oct 2018Fell View Barn Barret Hill Brow Bolton by Bowland BB7 4PQ
Received 12 Oct 2018Bolton Peel Farm Bolton by Bowland Road Bolton by Bowland BB7 4NJ
Received 12 Oct 2018Wymondhouses Farm Pendleton Clitheroe BB7 1PS
Received 16 Oct 201817 Candlemakers Court Clitheroe BB7 1AH
Received 18 Oct 2018Edisford Primary School Edisford Road Clitheroe BB7 2LN
Received 17 Oct 2018Knowle Top Clitheroe Road Pendleton BB7 1PU
Received 18 Oct 2018HEYES CHEMIST, 35 MOOR LANE, CLITHEROE, LANCS
Received 27 Jul 2001Land adjacent to Glenetta Parsonage Road Wilpshire BB1 4AG
Received 15 Oct 20181 Brookes Lane Whalley BB7 9RG
Received 18 Oct 20181 Queens Drive Longridge PR3 3FJ
Received 6 Feb 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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