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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Hollins House Clerk Hill Road Sabden BB7 9FR
Received 4 Nov 2021Higher Hodgfield House Whalley Old Road Billington
Received 4 Nov 2021Fernside Cottage Smithy Fold Lane Twiston Clitheroe BB7 4BZ
Received 4 Nov 2021Pendle View Fisheries Whalley Clitheroe Bypass, Wiswell BB7 9DH
Received 4 Nov 2021Longsight House Longsight Road Copster Green BB1 9EU
Received 5 Nov 20211 DAWSON AVENUE, SIMONSTONE, BURNLEY
Received 8 Aug 2001Riverside 5 Browgate Sawley BB7 4NB
Received 5 Nov 2021Dilworth Coach House 41 Dilworth Lane Longridge PR3 3ST
Received 5 Nov 2021Ivy Bank Farm Hothersall Lane Hothersall PR3 2XB
Received 5 Nov 202121 Church Close Waddington Clitheroe BB7 3HX
Received 5 Nov 2021Silverdale 55 Whalley Road Langho BB6 8ES
Received 8 Nov 2021Lyndon Northcote Road Langho BB6 8BG
Received 8 Nov 2021Barnacre Road Primary School Barnacre Road Longridge PR3 2PD
Received 8 Nov 202110 Chatburn Park Drive Clitheroe BB7 2AY
Received 8 Nov 2021Land at Higher Standen Farm and Part of Littlemoor Farm Clitheroe
Received 8 Nov 2021Barn at Greengore Hill Lane Hurst Green BB7 9QT
Received 9 Nov 20213 Ridge Court Longridge Preston Lancashire
Received 9 Aug 200532 VICTORIA COURT, CHATBURN, CLITHEROE
Received 3 Sept 2001Croft Cottage Ramsgreave Hall Farm Higher Ramsgreave Road Ramsgreave
Received 9 Nov 2021Tesco Stores Ltd Waterloo Road Clitheroe BB7 1LP
Received 9 Nov 2021land adjacent to no 9 Old Road Chatburn BB7 4AB
Received 9 Nov 202127 The Hazels Wilpshire BB1 9HZ
Received 10 Nov 2021Pendle View Lovely Hall Lane Copster Green BB1 9EQ
Received 10 Nov 2021Shelton 1 Portfield Bar Whalley BB7 9DL
Received 10 Nov 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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