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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 17 Dec 200130 Peel Park Avenue and land to the rear Clitheroe BB7 1ET
Received 9 Nov 201830 Peel Park Avenue and land to the rear Clitheroe BB7 1ET
Received 9 Nov 2018Land adjacent to Village Hall Main Street Newton in Bowland BB7 3DZ
Received 15 Nov 2018Land off Pimlico Link Road Clitheroe BB7 4PZ
Received 13 Nov 201812 Church Brow Gardens Clitheroe BB7 2AB
Received 16 Nov 2018Rosemede (Rose Cottage) Main Street Grindleton BB7 4QT
Received 19 Nov 2018Holmes Mill Greenacre Street Clitheroe BB7 1EB
Received 13 Nov 2018Holmes Mill Greenacre Street Clitheroe BB7 1EB
Received 13 Nov 2018Talbot Bridge Cottage Cross Lane Bashall Eaves BB7 3NA
Received 14 Nov 2018LAND ADJOINING, 69 PIMLICO ROAD, CLITHEROE
Received 18 Jan 200223 Hillside Drive West Bradford BB7 4TG
Received 12 Nov 201881 Ribchester Road Clayton Le Dale BB1 9HT
Received 8 Nov 2018Clerk Laithe Slaidburn Road Newton BB7 3DY
Received 8 Nov 2018Land SW of Clitheroe Golf Club Whalley Road Barrow BB7 9BA
Received 13 Nov 2018Thurstons Farm Myerscough Road Mellor Brook BB2 7LB
Received 5 Nov 201831 Railway View Road Clitheroe BB7 2HE
Received 21 Nov 2018Bolton Peel Farm Bolton by Bowland Road Bolton by Bowland BB7 4NJ
Received 5 Nov 20189 Greenside Ribchester PR3 3ZJ
Received 15 Nov 201842 Durham Road Wilpshire BB1 9NH
Received 15 Nov 2018The Former Moorcock Inn Site Slaidburn Road Waddington BB7 3AA
Received 16 Nov 2018BARN AT WINDY PIKE FARM, CARTERS LANE, GISBURN
Received 14 Jan 2002Intack Farm Old Clitheroe Road Dutton PR3 2YU
Received 16 Nov 2018Land on the south side of Ridding Lane (Broad Lane) Whalley adj Sewage Works.
Received 13 Nov 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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