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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Plot 1 8 Hammond Drive Read BB12 7RE
Received 23 Oct 20202 Pendle Street West Sabden BB7 9EG
Received 23 Oct 2020Polkerris 1 Maple Close Whalley BB7 9AG
Received 23 Oct 2020Land opposite Ashbrook Ribblesdale Avenue Clitheroe BB7 2HZ
Received 26 Oct 2020Wildmans Farm Longsight Road Langho BB6 8AD
Received 26 Oct 2020Land East of Clitheroe Road Barrow BB7 9BN
Received 26 Oct 20209 The Plantation Tosside Skipton BD23 4SF
Received 27 Oct 202077 Salthill Road Clitheroe BB7 1PE
Received 27 Oct 2020147 RIBCHESTER ROAD, CLAYTON-LE-DALE, BLACKBURN
Received 1 May 2002Oakhill College Wiswell Lane Whalley BB7 9AF
Received 27 Oct 2020BLACKMOSS LODGE BUNGALOW, CHIPPING LANE, THORNLEY pr3 2tb
Received 28 Oct 2020Hoddercroft Newton Road Newton BB7 3DY
Received 27 Oct 2020Carstairs Osbaldeston Lane Osbaldeston BB2 7LZ
Received 27 Oct 202061 Chaigley Road Longridge PR3 3QT
Received 28 Oct 2020Snow Hill House Main Street Gisburn BB7 4HD
Received 29 Oct 2020Flats 1A and 1B Old Farmhouse Bawdlands Clitheroe BB7 2LA
Received 28 Oct 2020Shackletons Garden Centre Ltd Clitheroe Road Chatburn BB7 4JY
Received 28 Oct 2020Sir Johns/Lords Park Wood Accrington Road Whalley BB7 9DL
Received 29 Oct 2020Old House Hodder Court Knowles Brow Stonyhurst BB7 9PP
Received 29 Oct 2020EDISFORD HALL AND ATTACHED COTTAGES, EDISFORD BRIDGE, CLITHEROE
Received 1 May 2002Land south west of Barrow and west of Whalley Road Barrow
Received 30 Oct 2020Land at 3 Franklin Hill Brockhall Village Langho BB6 8HY
Received 30 Oct 20205 Whalley Road Read BB12 7PB
Received 30 Oct 2020Forty Acre Farm Forty Acre Lane Longridge PR3 2TU
Received 30 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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