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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Fleet Street Garage Fleet Street Lane Ribchester PR3 3ZA
Received 3 Dec 2018Land rear of Rocklea and Standridge Whalley Road Billington BB7 9NA
Received 7 Dec 201827 EDISFORD ROAD, CLITHEROE, BB7 2LN
Received 4 Feb 2002Oakhill College Wiswell Lane Whalley BB7 9AF
Received 7 Dec 2018Susie Cottage Rimington Lane Rimington BB7 4DT
Received 24 Aug 2018Alker Bottoms Farm Brooklyn Road Wilpshire BB1 9PP
Received 10 Dec 2018Barrow Primary School Old Row Whalley Road Barrow BB7 9AZ
Received 5 Dec 201821 King Street Whalley BB7 9SP
Received 5 Dec 201814 Shropshire Drive Wilpshire BB1 9NF
Received 11 Dec 2018Dewhurst Farm Longsight Road Langho BB6 8AD
Received 5 Dec 2018Houlker Fold Farm Osbaldeston Lane Osbaldeston Lancashire
Received 5 Dec 2018land adj Low Barn Grunsagill Road Bolton-by-Bowland BD23 4SL
Received 11 Dec 2018New Garage Mitton Road Whalley BB7 9JU
Received 11 Dec 201818 WHALLEY ROAD, CLITHEROE, LANCS
Received 4 Feb 2002Hawkshaw Farm Longsight Road Clayton le Dale BB2 7JA
Received 11 Dec 201834 Woodhead Road Read BB12 7PH
Received 11 Dec 20181 George Street Whalley BB7 9TH
Received 11 Dec 2018The Newdrop Inn Higher Road Dutton Knowle Green Longridge PR3 2YU
Received 8 Oct 2018Calder Vale Park Simonstone Lane Simonstone BB12 7ND
Received 12 Dec 2018Bambers Bungalow Smalden Lane Lane Ends Bolton by Bowland Clitheroe BB7 4PH
Received 12 Dec 2018Land North of Bambers Bungalow (Bambers Croft) Lane Ends Bolton by Bowland BB7 4PH
Received 12 Dec 201831 Warwick Drive Clitheroe BB7 2BG
Received 13 Dec 2018Crabtree Cottage Back Lane Wiswell BB7 9BU
Received 14 Dec 201814 RIVERLEA GARDENS, CLITHEROE
Received 22 Feb 2002Records 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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