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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
13 Princess Avenue Clitheroe BB7 2AL
Received 10 Dec 2019Shepherds View Skipton Road Gisburn BD23 3JP
Received 28 Nov 20194 Berry Lane Longridge PR3 3JB
Received 28 Nov 2019The Deer House Woodfold Park Further Lane Mellor BB2 7QA
Received 29 Nov 2019Parsons Croft Slaidburn Road Waddington BB7 3JQ
Received 29 Nov 2019Land off Davis Street Longridge PR3 3NL
Received 2 Dec 2019Berryfield Towneley House Towneley Road Longridge PR3 3EA
Received 3 Dec 20194 Longridge Road Hurst Green BB7 9QP
Received 29 Nov 2019Twin Brook Farm Up Brooks Clitheroe BB7 1PL
Received 13 Dec 201949 WOONE LANE, CLITHEROE, LANCS
Received 2 Apr 2002Land off Hawthorne Farm Hawthorne Place Clitheroe BB7 2HU
Received 12 Dec 2019Agricultural Building off Chapel Close Low Moor Clitheroe
Received 3 Dec 20193 Tucker Hill Clitheroe BB7 2NR
Received 3 Dec 2019Hall Barn Farm Knowles Brow Hurst Green BB7 9PT
Received 3 Dec 2019Land adjacent to 17 Brookes Lane Whalley BB7 9RG
Received 3 Dec 2019land at Lower Standen Hey Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 1PP
Received 3 Dec 2019land at Lower Standen Hey Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 1PP
Received 3 Dec 20194 Leys Close Wiswell Clitheroe BB7 9DA
Received 3 Dec 2019land to SW of Barrow and W of Whalley Road Barrow BB7 9XW
Received 4 Dec 2019land to SW of Barrow and W of Whalley Road Barrow BB7 9XW
Received 4 Dec 2019STEPHEN PARK, HOLE HOUSE LANE, GISBURN FOREST, TOSSIDE
Received 2 Apr 2002Deerpark Garage Gisburn Road Gisburn BB7 4ES
Received 4 Dec 2019Willow Tree House 18 The Drive Brockhall Village BB6 8BJ
Received 4 Dec 2019Chatburn Road Downham BB7 4BJ
Received 4 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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