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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
63 St Marys Drive Langho BB6 8DL
Received 13 Aug 202010 Buckingham Drive Read BB12 7QE
Received 13 Aug 2020Ribble Valley Care Home Sawley Old Brow Sawley BB7 4LF
Received 13 Aug 202067 Whalley Road Langho BB6 8EF
Received 13 Aug 2020Land to the rear of 16 Whiteacre Lane Barrow BB7 9BJ
Received 14 Aug 20203 KINGSMILL AVENUE, WHALLEY, CLITHEROE
Received 18 Dec 2001Lower Flass Farm Settle Road Bolton by Bowland BB7 4NY
Received 14 Aug 2020Thistleber Farm Rimington Lane Rimington BB7 4EB
Received 14 Aug 2020Reed Deep Whalley Road Hurst Green BB7 9QJ
Received 17 Aug 2020Rileys Farm Chapel Lane Langho BB6 8AQ
Received 17 Aug 20208 Vicarage Close Clitheroe BB7 2RN
Received 18 Aug 202017 Water Meadows Longridge PR3 3BY
Received 18 Aug 2020Berner House West Bradford Road Waddington BB7 3JD
Received 18 Aug 20205 Bushburn Drive Langho BB6 8EZ
Received 18 Aug 2020Land south west of Barrow and west of Whalley Road Barrow
Received 19 Aug 2020Rimington Caravan Park Hardacre Lane Rimington BB7 4EE
Received 19 Aug 202024 WHEATSHEAF AVENUE, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON
Received 20 Dec 2001Unit 5 Stonebridge Mill Preston Road Longridge PR3 3AN
Received 19 Aug 2020Banks Cottage Chipping Road Longridge PR3 2NB
Received 19 Aug 2020Land on the east side of Clerk Hill Road just to the south of the access to Whalley Golf Club off the west side of Clerk Hill Road Whalley
Received 19 Aug 2020Whalley Abbey The Sands Whalley
Received 20 Aug 2020Falcon House Whalley Road Sabden BB7 9DZ
Received 20 Aug 2020The Conference Centre Gleneagles Drive Brockhall Village Old Langho BB6 8AY
Received 12 Aug 2020Brockhall Village Old Langho BB6 8BA
Received 17 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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