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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
11 HIPPINGS WAY, CLITHEROE, LANCS
Received 1 Mar 20027 St Chads Avenue Chatburn Clitheroe BB7 4AN
Received 17 Oct 2022Churn Clough House Wesley Street Sabden Lancashire BB7 9EN
Received 17 Oct 2022Ghyll Seeds Farm Knotts Lane Bolton by Bowland BD23 4SJ
Received 18 Oct 2022126 Ribchester Road Clayton Le Dale BB1 9EE
Received 19 Oct 202217 Clitheroe Road Whalley Lancashire BB7 9AA
Received 18 Oct 2022St Mary's and All Saints Parish Church Church Lane Whalley BB7 9SY
Received 19 Oct 2022Land east of Chipping Lane Longridge
Received 19 Oct 2022Little Blacksticks Blacksticks Lane Chipping Lancashire PR3 2WL
Received 20 Oct 2022Scott House Greenmoor Lane Ribchester PR3 2YR
Received 20 Oct 2022The Gatehouse 23 The Grange Wilpshire BB1 9JU
Received 20 Oct 2022BURNSIDE, PARSONAGE ROAD, WILPSHIRE, BLACKBURN
Received 8 Mar 2002Salem Congregational Chapel Long Lover Lane Rimington BB7 4EG
Received 20 Oct 2022Former Public Toilets Market Place Longridge PR3 3RQ
Received 20 Oct 2022Former Public Toilets Market Place Longridge PR3 3RQ
Received 20 Oct 2022Natwest Bank York Street Clitheroe Lancs BB7 2DN
Received 20 Oct 20225 Mayfair Close Clitheroe BB7 2RP
Received 20 Oct 2022Smithies Bridge Farm Gisburn Road Sawley BB7 4NA
Received 21 Oct 20224 The Green Osbaldeston Lane Osbaldeston BB2 7LY
Received 21 Oct 2022Land Adj to Further Lane and Woodfold Park Mellor BB2 7QA
Received 21 Oct 2022Dewhurst Farm Longsight Road Langho BB6 8AD
Received 21 Oct 2022Land opposite Ashbrook Ribblesdale Avenue Clitheroe BB7 2HZ
Received 24 Oct 2022WHALLEY INDUSTRIAL PARK, CLITHEROE ROAD, WHALLEY, CLITHEROE
Received 3 Jan 2002Holmfield Long Row Mellor BB2 7EF
Received 24 Oct 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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