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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Brows Farm Brows Barn Higher Road Longridge PR3 2YX
Received 14 Dec 2018Ribble Valley Remembrance Park Mitton Road Whalley
Received 14 Dec 201830 Peel Park Avenue and land to the rear Clitheroe BB7 1ET
Received 7 Dec 201812 Cottam Close Whalley BB7 9RE
Received 11 Dec 2018Wolfen Lodge Fish House Lane Chipping PR3 2GR
Received 18 Dec 2018Old Row Whalley Road Barrow BB7 9AZ
Received 17 Dec 2018St Marys Court Church Lane Mellor Blackburn Lancs BB2 7SE
Received 18 Dec 2018Over Hacking Farm Knowles Brow Hurst Green BB7 9PY
Received 19 Sept 2018Alston Hall Alston Lane Longridge PR3 3BP
Received 19 Dec 2018Land off Hough Clough Lane Near Chipping PR3 2NT
Received 14 Dec 20189 & 11 MOOR LANE, CLITHEROE, LANCS
Received 22 Feb 200218 St Peters Close Clayton le Dale BB1 9HH
Received 19 Dec 2018Land rear of Rocklea and Standridge Whalley Road Billington BB7 9NA
Received 14 Dec 2018Former Victoria Mill Watt Street Sabden BB7 9ED
Received 13 Dec 2018Land to the north of Whalley Road Hurst Green BB7 9QH
Received 17 Dec 2018The Coach House 26 Whalley Road Wilpshire BB1 9JT
Received 19 Dec 2018Eaves Hall Farm Moor Lane West Bradford BB7 3JG
Received 19 Dec 201838 The Rydings Langho BB6 8BQ
Received 12 Dec 2018The Coach House Clitheroe Road Waddington BB7 3HQ
Received 20 Dec 2018The Old Printworks (1-5 Printers Fold) Stubbins Lane Sabden BB7 9FN
Received 20 Dec 2018Wilkinsons Farm Simonstone Lane Simonstone BB12 7NX
Received 20 Dec 201815 BROOKES LANE, WHALLEY, CLITHEROE
Received 22 Feb 2002Hague Farm Bolton by Bowland Road Sawley BB7 4NJ
Received 19 Dec 2018Eaves Hall Farm Moor Lane West Bradford BB7 3JG
Received 19 Dec 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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