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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Deerhurst (formerly Horrocks) Knowles Brow Hurst Green BB7 9QX
Received 14 Jul 2021Lees House Whitewell Road Cow Ark Whitewell BB7 3DG
Received 15 Jul 20213 Spinney Croft Longridge Lancashire PR3 3HQ
Received 15 Jul 2021Brockthorn Wigglesworth Road Slaidburn BD23 4SX
Received 15 Jul 202170 Durham Road Wilpshire BB1 9NH
Received 15 Jul 202125 Whalley Road Read Lancashire
Received 22 Jul 2005DE TABLEY GRANGE, RIBCHESTER ROAD, CLAYTON-LE-DALE, BLACKBURN
Received 3 May 200218 Accrington Road (Whalley Motor Services) Whalley BB7 9TD
Received 15 Jul 2021Pendle View Fisheries Whalley Clitheroe Bypass Wiswell BB7 9DH
Received 15 Jul 2021Coppersend 21 Whalley Road Wilpshire BB1 9LQ
Received 16 Jul 2021Longshaw House Barker Lane Mellor BB2 7EE
Received 16 Jul 2021Croasdale Farm 1 Whinney Lane Langho BB6 8DQ
Received 16 Jul 2021Lawson House Farm Bolton by Bowland Road Bolton by Bowland BB7 4NJ
Received 16 Jul 2021Old Barn Pendleton Road Wiswell BB7 9DD
Received 19 Jul 20211 Whalley Road Sabden BB7 9DZ
Received 19 Jul 2021Carr Hall Whalley Road Wilpshire BB1 9LJ
Received 19 Jul 2021Chapels 16 The Drive Brockhall Village Old Langho BB6 8BJ
Received 19 Jul 2021DOWNHAM HALL, CHATBURN ROAD, DOWNHAM, CLITHEROE
Received 3 May 2002Read and Simonstone Community Tennis Club Off Carleton Avenue Simonstone BB12 7JA
Received 20 Jul 2021Lyndale Whalley Road Pendleton Clitheroe BB7 1PP
Received 20 Jul 2021Springwood Drive Whalley BB7 9XL Phase 2 Lawsonsteads
Received 20 Jul 2021St Lawrence Church Lower Lane Longridge PR2 2YD
Received 21 Jul 2021Radley Ribblesdale Avenue Clitheroe BB7 2HZ
Received 21 Jul 202134 Fern Walk Shireburn Park Edisford Road Waddington Clitheroe BB7 3LB
Received 21 Jul 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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