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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land to the rear of 32 Waterside Reach Barrow BB7 9XQ
Received 11 Feb 2022Black Horse Inn Pimlico Road Clitheroe BB7 4PZ
Received 9 Feb 2022ANGRAM GREEN FARM, WORSTON
Received 23 Jan 200241 King Street Whalley BB7 9SP
Received 9 Feb 2022Units 10 11 and Nursery Lodge Close Barrow BB7 9BQ
Received 7 Jan 2022Land to the rear of 2 Kirkbeck Mews Gisburn Road Bolton by Bowland BB7 4NQ
Received 15 Feb 2022Whittakers Farm Bowland Gate Lane West Bradford BB7 4TL
Received 11 Feb 2022Land north of Braddup House Farm (between Braddup Clough and Burbles Hill)
Received 16 Feb 20223 Hayhurst Road Whalley BB7 9RL
Received 31 Jan 2022Land adjacent to Number 34 and 40 George Lane Read
Received 2 Feb 2022Land south west of Barrow and west of Whalley Road Barrow
Received 9 Feb 202219 Dorset Drive Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 2BQ
Received 9 Feb 20223 Northacre Drive Barrow BB7 9XT
Received 10 Feb 2022Whalley Abbey Conference House The Sands Whalley Lancashire BB7 9TN
Received 13 Jul 2004Coach House at Whiteholme Ribchester Road Clayton-Le-Dale Lancashire
Received 19 Aug 2005OLD CO-OPERATIVE BUILDING, BERRY LANE, LONGRIDGE
Received 23 Jan 2002Clitheroe Cricket Club Chatburn Road Clitheroe Lancs
Received 10 Feb 2022Oak House Longsight Road Clayton Le Dale BB1 9EX
Received 10 Feb 2022Pendle View Fisheries A59 Barrow BB7 9DH
Received 10 Feb 2022Longridge Cricket Club Chipping Road Longridge PR3 2NB
Received 11 Feb 20229 Mitton Road Whalley BB7 9RX
Received 11 Feb 2022Lowfield Cottage Kemple End Stonyhurst Clitheroe BB7 9QY
Received 11 Feb 20228 Springs Road Longridge PR3 3TE
Received 14 Feb 2022Queen Mary Terrace and Bridge Terrace Mitton Road Whalley BB7 9JS
Received 15 Feb 2022Records 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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