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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
64-70 KING STREET WHALLEY CLITHEROE BB7 9SN
Received 30 Aug 201921 Pimlico Road Clitheroe BB7 2AG
Received 2 Sept 201919 LANGDALE ROAD, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON
Received 17 Jan 2002Ravensholme Farm Pendle Road Downham BB7 4BX
Received 3 Sept 2019Amberley 1 Church Close Read Lancashire BB12 7RJ
Received 2 Sept 201980 Fairfield Drive Clitheroe BB7 2PS
Received 2 Sept 20192 Abbey Works Back King Street Whalley BB7 9SP
Received 2 Sept 2019Unit 4 Barrow Brook Trade Park Lodge Close Barrow BB7 9BQ
Received 2 Sept 2019Land at Thurstons Farm Myerscough Smithy Road Mellor Brook Blackburn BB2 7LB
Received 3 Sept 2019The Old School Slaidburn Road Newton BB7 3DY
Received 30 Aug 2019The Old School Slaidburn Road Newton BB7 3DY
Received 29 Aug 20192 Kirkbeck Mews Bolton by Bowland BB7 4NQ
Received 4 Sept 201964 Padiham Road Sabden BB7 9EX
Received 2 Sept 201929 VICTORIA STREET, CLITHEROE, LANCS
Received 5 Feb 200216 King Street Longridge PR3 3RQ
Received 6 Sept 201930 Peel Park Avenue and land to the rear Clitheroe BB7 1ET
Received 30 Aug 2019Cooks Farm Further Lane Mellor BB2 7QB
Received 3 Sept 2019Knowle Hey Stoneygate Lane Ribchester PR3 3YN
Received 29 Aug 2019Knowle Hey Stoneygate Lane Ribchester PR3 3YN
Received 29 Aug 2019Johnson Matthey Pimlico Industrial Area West Bradford Road Clitheroe BB7 4QB
Received 4 Sept 2019Johnson Matthey Pimlico Industrial Area West Bradford Road Clitheroe BB7 4QB
Received 4 Sept 201921 The Grange Wilpshire Blackburn Lancashire BB1 9JU
Received 6 Sept 2019Land adjacent to Time Technology Park Blackburn Road (A678) Simonstone BB12 7TY
Received 5 Sept 2019Crafnant 14 Whinney Lane Langho BB6 8DQ
Received 4 Sept 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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