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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
20 DURHAM ROAD, WILPSHIRE, BLACKBURN
Received 26 Jul 2002Fernside Cottage 5 and 7 Hellifield Road Bolton by Bowland BB7 4NS
Received 27 Jan 2020Green Beech Higher Commons Lane Mellor Brook Blackburn BB2 7PS
Received 21 Jan 20201 Fleet Street Longridge PR3 3ED
Received 20 Jan 2020Smithy Cottage Birks Brow Longridge PR3 2TX
Received 5 Feb 2020Land to south-west of Barrow and west of Whalley Road Barrow BB7 9XW
Received 30 Jan 2020Land adj former Genus Site Mitton Road Whalley BB7 9JY
Received 22 Jan 2020Mount Pleasant Ribchester Road Hothersall PR3 3XA
Received 21 Jan 202021 Paris Ramsgreave BB1 9BJ
Received 22 Jan 2020Hydro Lodge Sawley Road Grindleton Nr Clitheroe BB7 4QS
Received 16 Jan 2020Ivy Cottage 31 Cunliffe Lane Wiswell Clitheroe BB7 9BT
Received 22 Jan 202026 MARDALE ROAD, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON
Received 26 Jul 200224 Green Drive Clitheroe BB7 2BB
Received 6 Feb 2020Greenacre Whiteacre Lane Wiswell BB7 9BL
Received 5 Feb 2020Land at Chatburn Road Clitheroe BB7 2EQ
Received 30 Jan 2020War Memorial Clitheroe Castle Castle Gate Clitheroe
Received 24 Jan 20207 Sutherland Close Wilpshire BB1 9LT
Received 6 Feb 202010 Bradyll Court Brockhall Villlage Old Langho BB6 8AS
Received 27 Jan 2020land to the rear of 9 Pendle Street East Sabden Lancashire
Received 24 Jan 2020Glenroy 65 Whalley Road Wilpshire BB1 9LH
Received 24 Jan 2020Unit 5 Twin Brook Business Park Twin Brook Road Clitheroe BB7 1QX
Received 29 Jan 20201 Church Street Clitheroe BB7 2DD
Received 28 Jan 2020HIGHER RAIKE HOUSE, 10 CHURCH RAIKE, CHIPPING, PRESTON
Received 26 Jul 2002Hackings Farmhouse Whins Lane Simonstone BB12 7QR
Received 27 Jan 2020Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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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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