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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
25 Jeffrey Avenue Longridge PR3 3TH
Received 13 Jan 2020Bayley Arms Hotel Avenue Road Hurst Green BB7 9QB
Received 13 Jan 2020FIR TREES, RIMINGTON LANE, RIMINGTON, NR CLITHEROE
Received 8 Oct 20022 Bowland Close Longridge PR3 3TU
Received 13 Jan 2020Mill Cottage Victoria Terrace Mellor Brook BB2 7PL
Received 13 Jan 2020Beechwood Barn Gisburn Road Gisburn BB7 4LH
Received 13 Jan 2020Jacksons Haulage Salthill Industrial Estate Lincoln Way Clitheroe BB7 1QD
Received 13 Jan 20205 Woodfield View Whalley BB7 9TB
Received 15 Jan 2020Plot 4 Cherry Drive Brockhall Village BB6 8HJ
Received 15 Jan 202029 Chestnut Crescent Barrow Clitheroe BB7 9FD
Received 8 Jan 2020Bank View House Sawley Road Grindleton Clitheroe BB7 4RT
Received 16 Jan 2020Hougher Fall Old Clitheroe Road Dutton Preston PR3 2YU
Received 13 Jan 2020Black Horse Inn Pimlico Road Clitheroe BB7 4PZ
Received 16 Jan 2020RATCLIFFE COTTAGE, LOWER ROAD, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON
Received 25 Jul 2002land to SW of Barrow and W of Whalley Road Barrow BB7 9XW
Received 16 Jan 2020land to SW of Barrow and W of Whalley Road Barrow BB7 9XW
Received 16 Jan 2020Oxendale Hall Osbaldeston Lane Osbaldeston BB2 7LZ
Received 16 Jan 2020Oxendale Hall Osbaldeston Lane Osbaldeston BB2 7LZ
Received 16 Jan 2020Land on the east side of Clerk Hill Road south of the access to Whalley Golf Club.
Received 16 Jan 202017 St Peters Close Clayton le Dale BB1 9HH
Received 17 Jan 20207A George Street Whalley BB7 9TH
Received 17 Jan 2020Dewhurst Farm Longsight Road Langho BB6 8AD
Received 17 Jan 20206 Brooklands Chipping PR3 2QU
Received 20 Jan 2020Former Barclays Bank 65 - 67 King Street Whalley BB7 9SW
Received 20 Jan 2020Records 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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