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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
RIBBLE VALLEY ENTERPRISE PARK, WHALLEY ROAD, BARROW, CLITHEROE
Received 5 Feb 2002Land adj tennis courts Church Street Ribchester PR3 3ZR
Received 6 Sept 2019Hoddercroft Newton Road Newton BB7 3DY
Received 3 Sept 2019Abbot Farm Black House Lane Chipping PR3 2NR
Received 6 Sept 2019Toll Bar Cottage Whalley Road Simonstone BB12 7HS
Received 6 Sept 2019Land at Woodfield Farm Longsight Road Clayton le Dale
Received 6 Sept 2019Land adjacent to Time Technology Park Blackburn Road (A678) Simonstone BB12 7TY
Received 4 Sept 20193 King Street Clitheroe BB7 2EL
Received 5 Sept 2019Low Moor Top Farmland Low Moor Clitheroe BB7 2NT
Received 5 Sept 201918 Accrington Road (Whalley Motor Services) Whalley BB7 9TD
Received 5 Sept 2019Lower Fold Stables Northcote Road Langho BB6 8BE
Received 5 Sept 201978 WATERLOO ROAD, CLITHEROE, LANCS
Received 5 Feb 2002land off Northcote Road Langho BB6 8BE
Received 5 Sept 2019Greenacre Whiteacre Lane Wiswell BB7 9BL
Received 5 Sept 20193 Northacre Drive Barrow Clitheroe BB7 9XT
Received 9 Sept 20194 Park Head Accrington Road Whalley Clitheroe BB7 9FB
Received 9 Sept 2019Land at Chatburn Road Clitheroe BB7 2EQ
Received 10 Sept 201923 Queensway Waddington BB7 3HL
Received 10 Sept 2019Aldi Store Whalley Road Clitheroe BB7 1HT
Received 9 Sept 2019James Alpe Accident Repair Centre Lincoln Way Clitheroe BB7 1QD
Received 10 Sept 2019Chapels 16 The Drive Brockhall Village Old Langho BB6 8BJ
Received 9 Sept 2019FORMER LANGHO HOTEL, TAYLORS BUILDINGS, WHALLEY ROAD, LANGHO, BLACKBUR
Received 5 Feb 20027 Elm Close Calderstones Park Whalley BB7 9UT
Received 10 Sept 2019Fish House Farm Fish House Lane Chipping PR3 2GQ
Received 11 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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