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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Moorhouse Farm Carters Lane Ellenthorpe Paythorne BB7 4HZ
Received 2 Oct 20207 Manor Avenue Ribchester Lancashire PR3 3XN
Received 29 Sept 2020Elm Dene Up Brooks Lane Clitheroe BB7 1PL
Received 30 Sept 20203 Lancaster Drive Clitheroe Lancashire
Received 19 Jul 2005WESLEY STREET, SABDEN, CLITHEROE
Received 12 Jun 2002Hoober Farm and Horton Hall Farm Off Green Lane Horton BD23 3JT
Received 30 Sept 2020Small Acre Osbaldeston Lane Osbaldeston BB2 7JB
Received 30 Sept 2020Marl Barn Wigglesworth Road Slaidburn Lancashire BD23 4SX
Received 30 Sept 2020Arnside Ribchester Road Clayton Le Dale BB1 9EE
Received 7 Oct 2020Castlebank Straits Lane Read BB12 7PE
Received 1 Oct 202069 Shireburn Caravan Park Edisford Road Clitheroe BB7 3LB
Received 8 Sept 20203 Yarrow Crescent Ribble Meadows Clitheroe BB7 2FH
Received 30 Sept 2020Crabtree Cottage Back Lane Wiswell BB7 9BU
Received 1 Oct 20201 Ridding Lane Whalley BB7 9HW
Received 2 Oct 2020Dinckley Grange Farm Ribchester Road Langho BB6 8AH
Received 6 Oct 2020LONGRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL, PRESTON ROAD, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON
Received 12 Apr 2002Lower Standen Hey Farm Whalley Road Pendleton Clitheroe BB7 1PP
Received 5 Oct 2020Land to south-west of Barrow and west of Whalley Road Barrow BB7 9XW
Received 5 Oct 2020Oakhill College Wiswell Lane Whalley BB7 9AF
Received 6 Oct 2020Stonyhurst College Avenue Road Hurst Green BB7 9PZ
Received 6 Oct 2020Peartree Cottage 25 Pendleton Road Wiswell Clitheroe BB7 9DD
Received 6 Oct 2020Birks Farm Birks Brow Longridge PR3 2TX
Received 6 Oct 2020Ingledale Longsight Road Clayton le Dale BB1 9EX
Received 6 Oct 20204 Abbeycroft The Sands Whalley BB7 9TN
Received 7 Oct 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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