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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land north of household waste recycling centre Chapel Hill Longridge
Received 1 Jul 2019Dunsop Bridge Village Hall Trough Road Dunsop Bridge Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 3BG
Received 12 Nov 2019BARNES & TIPPING LTD, NEW GARAGE, MITTON ROAD, WHALLEY, CLITHEROE
Received 13 Jun 200232 Highwoods Park Brockhall Village Old Langho BB6 8HN
Received 14 Nov 2019land on the embankment of the A59 roundabout off Longsight Road Billington BB6 8FE
Received 21 Nov 201952 Eshton Terrace Clitheroe BB7 1BQ
Received 18 Nov 2019Cunliffe House Farm Longsight Road Langho BB6 8AD
Received 18 Nov 2019Staple Oak Trough Road Dunsop Bridge BB7 3BG
Received 18 Nov 201929 Redwood Drive Longridge Lancashire PR3 3HA
Received 19 Nov 2019Trees adj to Downham Hall and in the garden of Hillcrest
Received 19 Nov 2019Wigga Vista Whalley Road Barrow BB7 9BA
Received 20 Nov 2019Catkins Clough Lane Simonstone Lancashire BB12 7HW
Received 19 Nov 2019BAE Systems Samlesbury Aerodrome Myerscough Smithy Road Balderstone BB2 7LE
Received 20 Nov 2019The Bungalow Queen Street Low Moor Clitheroe Lancs
Received 27 Jun 2005WHITEHALGH MANOR, WHITEHALGH LANE, LANGHO, BLACKBURN
Received 13 Jun 2002Carr Garth 31 Green Lane Longridge PR3 3RB
Received 21 Nov 2019Land to south-west of Barrow and west of Whalley Road Barrow BB7 9XW
Received 20 Nov 2019Pendle Ski Club Clitheroe Road Sabden BB7 9HN
Received 20 Nov 20195 Carleton Avenue Simonstone Lancashire BB12 7JA
Received 20 Nov 2019Little Town Farm Chipping Road Longridge PR3 2TB
Received 21 Nov 2019Thorneyholme Whalley Road Barrow BB7 9BA
Received 21 Nov 2019Rosenburgh Settle Lane Paythorne BB7 4JD
Received 22 Nov 20198 Back Lane Rimington BB7 4EL
Received 26 Nov 2019Pendle Ski Slope Clitheroe Road Sabden BB7 9HN
Received 20 Nov 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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