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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
Coar Brook House Clitheroe Road Waddington BB7 3HH
Received 5 Aug 2022White Hill Stud Higher Trapp House Equestrian Centre Trapp Lane Simonstone BB12 7QW
Received 5 Aug 202233 Whittingham Road Longridge PR3 2AA
Received 5 Aug 2022Springfield House 3 Springfield Close Whalley BB7 9BW
Received 8 Aug 2022Plane Tree Cottage Chipping Road Chaigley BB7 3LT
Received 8 Aug 20221 Larkhill Old Langho BB6 8AR
Received 8 Aug 2022Capernaum 13 Kendal Street Clitheroe BB7 1PA
Received 8 Aug 2022land off Nethertown Close Whalley Clitheroe Lancashire
Received 12 Sept 2005BOLTON FOLD FARM, FURTHER LANE, MELLOR
Received 10 Sept 2001Stoops Farm (land adj Howcroft) Stopper Lane Rimington BB7 4DU
Received 8 Aug 2022Land Adjacent to Mulgrave House Ribblesdale Avenue Clitheroe BB7 2HZ
Received 9 Aug 2022Rosehill Chapel Fold Wiswell BB7 9DE
Received 9 Aug 2022Land To the South Of Stella Maris Alston Lane Preston PR3 3BN
Received 9 Aug 2022Crow Park Farm Crow Park Lane Gisburn BB7 4HP
Received 10 Aug 2022Shackletons Garden Centre Ltd Clitheroe Road Chatburn BB7 4JY
Received 10 Aug 2022Big Holme Farm Anna Lane Bolton by Bowland BB7 4NZ
Received 10 Aug 2022Hackings Holiday Caravan Park Elker Lane Billington BB7 9HZ
Received 11 Aug 202227 Barrow Brook Close Barrow BB7 9UN
Received 10 Aug 2022Oakhill College Wiswell Lane Whalley BB7 9AF
Received 10 Aug 2022KAM'S SERVICE STATION, WHALLEY ROAD, SIMONSTONE, BURNLEY
Received 26 Jul 200135-39 Whalley Road Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 1EE
Received 11 Aug 202210 Springbrook Clitheroe BB7 1GZ
Received 11 Aug 202212 Springbrook Clitheroe BB7 1GZ
Received 11 Aug 20228 Springbrook Clitheroe BB7 1GZ
Received 11 Aug 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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