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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Loft Shay Farm Clitheroe Road Ribchester PR3 2YQ
Received 12 Aug 20228 Woodlands Drive Whalley BB7 9TG
Received 11 Aug 2022Teewood Farm Barns Slaidburn Road Waddington BB7 3JJ
Received 12 Aug 202232 Parson Lane Clitheroe BB7 2JP
Received 12 Aug 2022Land to East of Bowland Gate Lane West Bradford BB7 4TL
Received 11 Aug 2022High Laithe Wigglesworth Road Slaidburn BD23 4SX
Received 12 Aug 2022NORCROSS FARM, HOTHERSALL LANE, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON
Received 7 Sept 2001Land to the north of Ribble Valley Enterprise Park Barrow BB7 9WF
Received 11 Aug 2022Rowan Bank Horton in Craven Horton Lancashire BD23 3JX
Received 15 Aug 2022Clitheroe Waste WaterTreatment Works Henthorn Road Clitheroe
Received 15 Aug 202224 Pendle Drive Whalley BB7 9JT
Received 16 Aug 20227 Hodder Grove Clitheroe BB7 2NZ
Received 15 Aug 2022Lower Underhand Farm Newton Road Newton BB7 3DL
Received 15 Aug 202229 Waddow Grove Waddington BB7 3JL
Received 15 Aug 2022Mulberry Grange Cross Hill Lane Rimington BB7 4EE
Received 16 Aug 2022Land off Clitheroe Road Whalley (Lawsonsteads phase 2) BB7 9RG
Received 16 Aug 2022Woodlea Whitehalgh Lane Langho BB6 8ET
Received 17 Aug 20229 GREENACRES, READ, BURNLEY BB12 7PT
Received 7 Sept 2001Twitter Bridge Farm Twitter Bridge Farm Twitter Lane Waddington BB7 3LG
Received 16 Aug 2022Crammond Coach House York Street Clitheroe Lancs BB7 2DH
Received 19 Aug 2022Crammond Coach House York Street Clitheroe Lancs BB7 2DH
Received 19 Aug 2022DMD Design 1 Lower Lane Longridge PR3 3SL
Received 19 Aug 2022Crammond Coach House York Street Clitheroe Lancs BB7 2DH
Received 19 Aug 2022Crammond Coach House York Street Clitheroe Lancs BB7 2DH
Received 19 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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