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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Eaves Hall Farm Moor Lane West Bradford BB7 3JG
Received 12 Sept 20196 Coplow View Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 4SG
Received 12 Sept 2019Former Ambulance Station off Princess Avenue Clitheroe BB7 2AL
Received 11 Sept 2019133 Henthorn Road Clitheroe BB7 2QF
Received 12 Sept 2019Midway 13 Somerset Avenue Wilpshire BB1 9JD
Received 12 Sept 2019The Old Blacksticks Blacksticks Lane Chipping PR3 2WL
Received 9 Sept 2019Ribble Valley View Old Langho Road Langho BB6 8AW
Received 13 Sept 2019Wilpshire Methodist Church Ribchester Road Wilpshire BB1 9HU
Received 13 Sept 20196 Knunk Knowles Drive Clitheroe Lancs
Received 16 Jun 2005CHAPEL HILL INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, CHAPEL HILL, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON
Received 3 Jul 200271 Rowan Avenue Shireburn Park Edisford Road BB7 3LB
Received 16 Sept 201961 Ramsgreave Road Ramsgreave BB1 9BH
Received 16 Sept 2019Old House Hodder Court Knowles Brow Stonyhurst BB7 9PP
Received 16 Sept 2019Land to south-west of Barrow and west of Whalley Road Barrow BB7 9XW
Received 16 Sept 2019Land to south-west of Barrow and west of Whalley Road Barrow BB7 9XW
Received 16 Sept 2019Land to south-west of Barrow and west of Whalley Road Barrow BB7 9XW
Received 16 Sept 2019Land at Chatburn Road Clitheroe BB7 2EQ
Received 13 Sept 201915 Coplow View Clitheore BB7 4SG
Received 17 Sept 2019Green Beech Higher Commons Lane Mellor Brook Blackburn BB2 7PS
Received 18 Sept 2019Land to the East of Clitheroe Road Barrow BB7 9BN
Received 18 Sept 20198 MARDALE ROAD, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON
Received 6 Feb 2002East View Hallgate Hill Newton in Bowland BB7 3DY
Received 19 Sept 201984 Birch Drive Shireburn Park Edisford Road BB7 3LB
Received 18 Sept 2019The Old Stables Chapel Street Longridge PR3 3JH
Received 19 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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