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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
3 BRICK HOUSE GARDENS, GARSTANG ROAD, CHIPPING, PRESTON PR3 2QH
Received 29 Apr 2002Fernside Cottage 5 and 7 Hellifield Road Bolton by Bowland BB7 4NS
Received 18 Oct 20191 Barrow Brook Trade Park Lodge Close Barrow BB7 9QZ
Received 18 Oct 201934 Painter Wood Whalley Old Road Billington BB7 9JD
Received 21 Oct 2019Plot 7 Hare Hill Croft Chatburn Old Road Chatburn BB7 4EP
Received 21 Oct 2019Land West of Preston Road Longridge PR3 3BE
Received 24 Oct 201944-46 King Street Clitheroe BB7 2EU
Received 24 Oct 2019Bay Gate House Bolton by Bowland BB7 4PQ
Received 25 Oct 20198 Longridge Road Hurst Green BB7 9QP
Received 25 Oct 20191 Castle Street and 2-4 Parson Lane Clitheroe BB7 2BT
Received 21 Oct 2019Higher Standen Hey Farm Whalley Road Pendleton BB7 1PP
Received 21 Oct 2019OLD C0-0P BUILDING, BERRY LANE, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON
Received 23 Apr 20022 Southport Barn Cottages Sawley Road Sawley BB7 4LE
Received 28 Oct 2019Former Royal Observer Corps Radio Station Forty Acre Lane Longridge PR3 2TX
Received 23 Oct 201921 Paris Ramsgreave BB1 9BJ
Received 21 Oct 2019Longridge Guide Hut Irwell Street Longridge PR3 3NA
Received 23 Oct 2019Primrose Dairy Railway View Road Clitheroe BB7 2HE
Received 23 Oct 201920 King Street Clitheroe BB7 2EP
Received 23 Oct 2019land adj Braeside York Lane Langho BB6 8DT
Received 23 Oct 2019Bay Gate Barret Hill Brow Bolton by Bowland BB7 4PQ
Received 25 Oct 2019The Heathers Avenue Road Hurst Green BB7 9QB
Received 25 Oct 2019The White House Sawley Road Sawley BB7 4LE
Received 25 Oct 2019CLOUGH BOTTOM, TALBOT BRIDGE, BASHALL EAVES, CLITHEROE
Received 30 Apr 2002Calder Vale Park Simonstone Lane Simonstone BB12 7ND
Received 25 Oct 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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