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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
17 Loach Field Close Hurst Green BB7 9ZF
Received 14 Apr 2020Land south west of Ribblesdale Hall Sawley Road Chatburn BB7 4LD
Received 15 Apr 202037 MELLOR BROW, MELLOR, BLACKBURN BB2 7PN
Received 2 Oct 2001Hall Barns Farm Knowles Brow Hurst Green BB7 9PT
Received 15 Apr 2020Spout Farm Preston Road Longridge PR3 3BE
Received 15 Apr 20201-2 Brookside Holden Lane Bolton by Bowland BB7 4PE
Received 16 Apr 2020The Workshop 27 Bawdlands Clitheroe BB7 2LA
Received 16 Apr 2020Briarwood Mellor Lane Mellor BB2 7EW
Received 16 Apr 202037 Peel Park Avenue Clitheroe BB7 1EU
Received 16 Apr 2020Craven Laithe Farm Gisburn Road Rimington BB9 6NH
Received 17 Apr 2020Langho Sports and Social Club Dewhurst Road Langho BB6 8AF
Received 17 Apr 2020Higher Newfield Edge Burnley Road Gisburn BB7 4JN
Received 21 Apr 202091 Lowergate Clitheroe BB7 1AG
Received 20 Apr 2020STYDD ON THE RIBBLE NURSERY, STONEYGATE LANE, RIBCHESTER, PRESTON
Received 3 Oct 200123 Bridge End Whalley Road Billington BB7 9NU
Received 21 Apr 2020White Carr Lodge Dilworth Bottoms Ribchester PR3 3ZB
Received 21 Apr 202017 - 19 Watt Street Sabden BB7 9ED
Received 28 Apr 2020Oakhill School Wiswell Lane Whalley BB7 9AF
Received 28 Apr 2020Phases 2 3 and 4 Land at Pendle Road Clitheroe
Received 27 Apr 2020Land at Pendle Road Clitheroe
Received 27 Apr 2020Old Row Whalley Road Barrow BB7 9AZ
Received 28 Apr 2020Land north of Chatburn Road Clitheroe BB7 2EQ
Received 30 Apr 2020Stonehouse Nook Hollowhead Lane Wilpshire BB1 4AF
Received 22 Apr 2020Winkley Hall Farm Whalley Road Stonyhurst BB7 9PN
Received 23 Apr 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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