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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Bridge End Whalley Road Billington BB7 9NU
Received 28 May 2021Rose Cottage Edisford Road Clitheroe BB7 3LA
Received 1 Jun 2021Mulberry Grange Cross Hill Lane Rimington BB7 4EE
Received 1 Jun 202190 Regent Street Waddington Clitheroe BB7 3JA
Received 1 Jun 202120-22 Talbot Street Chipping PR3 2QE
Received 28 May 2021Thorneyholme Hall Newton Road Dunsop Bridge BB7 3BB
Received 28 May 2021Lower Hud Lee Farm Longridge Road Hurst Green BB7 9QP
Received 1 Jun 2021Greenbanks Farm Green Lane Grindleton Road Grindleton BB7 4QJ
Received 1 Jun 2021Woodfield Farm Longsight Road Clayton le Dale BB2 7JA
Received 1 Jun 2021NEW MARLES FARM, RIBCHESTER ROAD, DINCKLEY, BLACKBURN
Received 29 May 2002Land at Preston Road Ribchester PR3 3XL
Received 1 Jun 202118 Whiteacre Lane Barrow BB7 9BJ
Received 2 Jun 2021Land adj former Genus Site Mitton Road Whalley BB7 9JY
Received 2 Jun 2021Unit 1 to 2 Fairfield Business Park Longsight Road Clayton le Dale Blackburn BB2 7JA
Received 1 Jun 20212 Barley Close Whalley BB7 9XY
Received 2 Jun 2021Land off Ribchester Road Clayton le Dale BB1 9EE
Received 3 Jun 2021Roefield Specialist Care Ltd Thistle Manor Edisford Road Clitheroe BB7 3LA
Received 7 Jun 2021Land and Buildings at the rear of 50 Moor Lane, Clitheroe, BB7 1AJ
Received 4 Jun 2021Dene House 8 Longridge Road Hurst Green BB7 9QP
Received 3 Jun 20216 Croft Way Longridge PR3 3AG
Received 7 Jun 202128 CHURCH LANE, MELLOR, BLACKBURN
Received 29 May 200260 Padiham Road Sabden BB7 9EX
Received 7 Jun 202120 Hippings Way Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 2PQ
Received 4 Jun 2021New Cragg House Farm Collins Lane Chipping Preston PR3 2NP
Received 8 Jun 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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