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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 to South-West of Barrow and West of Whalley Road Barrow
Received 26 Nov 2019OAK HOUSE, 9 PASTURE GROVE, CALDERSTONES PARK, WHALLEY
Received 12 Jun 2002Thornley Hall Farm Thornley with Wheatley Longridge PR3 2TN
Received 20 Nov 2019Limekiln Gate Cottage Up Bedlam Road Longridge PR3 2TL
Received 25 Nov 2019Dilworth Barn Back Lane Slaidburn BB7 3EE
Received 25 Nov 2019Land at Petre Wood Close Langho BB6 8FD
Received 26 Nov 20196 Downham Road Chatburn BB7 4AU
Received 27 Nov 2019Greenhurst Nook Kenyon Lane Dinckley BB6 8AN
Received 27 Nov 2019Cross Gills Farm Whalley Road Hurst Green BB7 9QJ
Received 27 Nov 2019Land at Chatburn Road Clitheroe BB7 2EQ
Received 27 Nov 2019Longsight House Longsight Road Langho BB6 8AD
Received 27 Nov 2019LAND ADJOINING, 5 CLAREMONT DRIVE, CLITHEROE, BB7 1JW
Received 13 Jun 2002New Garage Mitton Road Whalley BB7 9JU
Received 28 Nov 2019Land south west of Barrow and west of Whalley Road Barrow
Received 2 Dec 2019Mill Cottage Victoria Terrace Mellor Brook BB2 7PL
Received 28 Nov 2019Holmes Mill Greenacre Street Clitheroe BB7 1EB
Received 20 Nov 2019Land to the north of Whalley Road Hurst Green (between Warren Fold and School Lane comprising part field and school car park) Clitheroe BB7 9QH
Received 29 Nov 2019Daniels Farm Preston Road Alston Preston PR3 3BL.
Received 4 Dec 201913 Langshaw Drive Clitheroe BB7 1EY
Received 10 Dec 2019Land off Chatburn Old Road Chatburn
Received 2 Dec 2019Knowle Hey Stoneygate Lane Ribchester PR3 3YN
Received 4 Dec 2019Former Victoria Mill Watt Street Sabden BB7 9ED
Received 29 Nov 2019LOUDSIDE COTTAGE, BACK LANE, CHIPPING, PRESTON
Received 14 Jun 200217 St Peters Close Clayton le Dale BB1 9HH
Received 3 Dec 2019Records 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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