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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Chapel Laithe Ribble Lane Chatburn BB7 4AG
Received 11 Feb 2020Land adjacent to Marsdens Farm Talbot Bridge Bashall Eaves Clitheroe
Received 11 Feb 2020Oakleigh Longsight Road Copster Green BB1 9EX
Received 12 Feb 202012 The Sands Whalley BB7 9TL
Received 13 Feb 2020Playing Fields Highmoor Farm Highmoor Clitheroe BB7 1PN
Received 13 Feb 2020Calder House 27a Calder Avenue Billington Clitheroe BB7 9NQ
Received 13 Feb 2020KEN VAREY'S OUTDOOR WORLD, 4 NEW MARKET STREET, CLITHEROE, LANCS
Received 23 Aug 2002Dudland Croft Gisburn Road Gisburn BB7 4LH
Received 13 Feb 2020Polkerris 1 Maple Close Whalley BB7 9AG
Received 13 Feb 2020Annex at Lane Side Farm, High Cliffe Greaves Grindleton BB7 4QT
Received 13 Feb 2020Old Lloyds Bank 2-4 Berry Lane Longridge PR3 3JB
Received 13 Feb 20202 Highwoods Park Brockhall Village Old Langho BB6 8HN
Received 20 Feb 2020Grove House Malt Kiln Brow Chipping PR3 2GP
Received 13 Feb 2020Clitheroe Golf Club Whalley Road Barrow BB7 1PP
Received 13 Feb 2020Unit 39 Shay Lane Longridge PR3 3BT
Received 14 Feb 20202 The Woodlands Brockhall Village Old Langho BB6 8BH
Received 17 Feb 2020Land adjacent to 9 Chatburn Old Road Chatburn BB7 4AB
Received 17 Feb 202024 KIRKMOOR ROAD, CLITHEROE, BB7 2DU
Received 23 Aug 2002Twyn Ghyll Caravan Site, Settle Lane, Paythorne BB7 4JD
Received 17 Feb 2020Mearley Lodge Primrose Road Clitheroe BB7 1DR
Received 17 Feb 2020Villa Rosa Snodworth Road Langho BB6 8DR
Received 17 Feb 2020Iron Forge Whitewell Road Cow Ark BB7 3DG
Received 18 Feb 2020Brook House Farm Clitheroe Road Waddington BB7 3HW
Received 18 Feb 2020Brook House Farm Clitheroe Road Waddington BB7 3HW
Received 18 Feb 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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