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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Gatehouse 23 The Grange Wilpshire BB1 9JU
Received 3 Aug 2020Thirty Acres Pig Hill Great Mitton Clitheroe BB7 3LJ
Received 3 Aug 2020Thirty Acres Farm Pig Hill Great Mitton BB7 3LJ
Received 3 Aug 2020Riverside Cottage Sawley Bridge Lane Sawley BB7 4NH
Received 3 Aug 2020Varleys Farm Anna Lane Bolton by Bowland BB7 4NZ
Received 4 Aug 2020Greengates Farm Skipton Road Gisburn BB7 4HP
Received 5 Aug 2020Mason House Farm Clitheroe Road Bashall Eaves BB7 3DD
Received 5 Aug 2020Great Dudlands Gisburn Road Gisburn BB7 4LH
Received 5 Aug 2020Holden Clough Nursery Bolton by Bowland Road Bolton by Bowland BB7 4PF
Received 5 Aug 202020 KING STREET, CLITHEROE, LANCS
Received 25 Feb 2002Mason House Farm Clitheroe Road Bashall Eaves BB7 3DD
Received 5 Aug 202044-46 King Street Clitheroe BB7 2EU
Received 29 Jul 2020Tom's Table Ground Floor Lee Carter House Lowergate Clitheroe BB7 1AD
Received 5 Aug 202012 Wheatley Drive Longridge PR3 3TT
Received 10 Aug 2020Hoober Farm and Horton Hall Farm Off Green Lane Horton BD23 3JT
Received 12 Aug 2020Deerpark Garage Gisburn Road Gisburn BB7 4ES
Received 6 Aug 20209 and 10 Dickens Court Brockhall Village Old Langho BB6 8HT
Received 5 Aug 2020The Outbarn Clough Bottom Rabbit Lane Bashall Eaves BB7 3NA
Received 6 Aug 2020Far End Cottage 20 Whins Avenue Sabden Clitheroe BB7 9DY
Received 7 Aug 2020Land adj 142 Ribchester Road Clayton le Dale BB1 9EE
Received 7 Aug 2020CLOUGH BOTTOM FARM, BASHALL EAVES, NR. CLITHEROE
Received 29 Nov 2002148 Kingfisher Close Shireburn Caravan Park Edisford Road Clitheroe BB7 3LB
Received 7 Aug 2020Information Kiosk PublicToilets Springwood Whalley BB7 9TD
Received 13 Aug 2020Land at 23 to 25 Old Row Whalley Road Barrow
Received 13 Aug 2020Records 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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