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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
88 BRANCH ROAD, MELLOR, BLACKBURN
Received 7 Nov 200123 Berry Lane Longridge PR3 3JA
Received 19 Oct 202110 Pendle Drive Whalley BB7 9JT
Received 19 Oct 2021St Helen's Church Twitter Lane Waddington BB7 3HS
Received 20 Oct 20218 Hammond Drive Read BB12 7RE
Received 20 Oct 2021Cuthbert Hill Garstang Road Chipping PR3 2QJ
Received 20 Oct 2021The Priory Hellifield Road Gisburn BB7 4HQ
Received 20 Oct 2021Barn on land between Edenfields Ribchester Road and A59 Clayton Le Dale BB1 9EY
Received 22 Oct 2021Ingledale Longsight Road Clayton le Dale BB1 9EX
Received 22 Oct 2021Barn adjacent to Shay House Farm Catlow Road Slaidburn BB7 3AQ
Received 21 Oct 202120 Berkeley Drive Read BB12 7QG
Received 21 Oct 202111 BROOKLYN ROAD, WILPSHIRE, BLACKBURN
Received 28 Sept 2001Little Acres 26A Whalley Road Wilpshire BB1 9JT
Received 22 Oct 2021The Homestead Whalley Road Wilpshire BB1 9LL
Received 21 Oct 2021Snow Hill Studio Main Street Gisburn BB7 4HD
Received 22 Oct 2021Thorneyholme Hall Newton Road Dunsop Bridge BB7 3BB
Received 22 Oct 2021Ribble Valley Remembrance Park Mitton Road Whalley BB7 9JY
Received 25 Oct 2021Woodfold Park Stud Woodfold Park Mellor BB2 7QA
Received 25 Oct 20217 Grasscroft Way Whalley BB7 9XX
Received 26 Oct 2021The Barn at The Heaning Dunsop Road Newton in Bowland BB7 3ED
Received 25 Oct 2021Trapp Forge Trapp Lane Simonstone BB12 7QW
Received 25 Oct 202143 St Marys Gardens Mellor BB2 7JW
Received 25 Oct 2021LOWERFIELDS, OSBALDESTON LANE, OSBALDESTON, BLACKBURN
Received 5 Nov 2001Cockerham Hall Saccary Lane Mellor Lancashire BB1 9DL
Received 25 Oct 2021Records 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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