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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
4B Ashgreen House Wiswell Lane Whalley Clitheroe BB7 9AF
Received 24 Oct 20225 Mills Way Chipping Preston PR3 2DP
Received 24 Oct 20226 Mills Way Chipping Longridge PR3 2DP
Received 24 Oct 20221 Ribblesdale Avenue Wilpshire BB1 9LY
Received 24 Oct 20221 Holly Grove Longridge PR3 3HR
Received 24 Oct 2022Land at Neddy Lane Billington BB7 9LL
Received 25 Oct 2022Land at Neddy Lane Billington BB7 9LL
Received 25 Oct 2022Land at Neddy Lane Billington BB7 9LL
Received 25 Oct 2022Land at Neddy Lane Billington BB7 9LL
Received 25 Oct 2022CASTLE CEMENT, RIBBLESDALE WORKS, WEST BRADFORD ROAD, CLITHEROE, LANCS
Received 9 Jan 2002Land at Neddy Lane Billington BB7 9LL
Received 25 Oct 2022Land at Neddy Lane Billington BB7 9LL
Received 25 Oct 2022Land at Neddy Lane Billington BB7 9LL
Received 25 Oct 2022Land adj 25 Paris Ramsgreave BB1 9BJ
Received 26 Oct 2022Land off Clough Bank Lane Chatburn BB7 4AW
Received 25 Oct 2022Total Food Services Ltd North Road Barrow BB7 9QZ
Received 26 Oct 20222 and 2a Shawbridge Street Clitheroe BB7 1LY
Received 26 Oct 2022High House Farm Higher Road Longridge Lancashire PR3 2YX
Received 26 Oct 2022Lyme House Farm Thornley with Wheatley PR3 2TE
Received 27 Oct 20223 Moor Field Whalley BB7 9SA
Received 27 Oct 2022DUDDEL HOUSE BARNS, CLITHEROE ROAD, DUTTON, PRESTON
Received 20 Feb 2002Killymoon 1 Bennetts Close off Wiswell Lane Whalley BB7 9AF
Received 27 Oct 2022The Coach House 26 Whalley Road Wilpshire BB1 9JT
Received 27 Oct 2022Land off Hawthorne Farm Hawthorne Place Clitheroe BB7 2HU
Received 28 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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