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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
35-39 Whalley Road Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 1EE
Received 15 Mar 2022New Laithe Farm Settle Road Bolton by Bowland BB7 4NU
Received 15 Mar 2022Talbot Hotel 5 Talbot Street Chipping PR3 2QE
Received 15 Mar 2022THE GRAND, YORK STREET, CLITHEROE, LANCS
Received 8 Apr 2002Talbot Hotel 5 Talbot Street Chipping PR3 2QE
Received 15 Mar 2022Pale Farm Barn Moss Lane Chipping Lancashire PR3 2TR
Received 16 Mar 2022The Follies Bungalow Vicarage Lane Wilpshire BB1 9HY
Received 16 Mar 2022Stanley House Preston New Road Mellor BB2 7NP
Received 16 Mar 2022Hacking Hall Farm Elker Lane Billington BB7 9HZ
Received 17 Mar 202267 Pimlico Road Clitheroe BB7 2AH
Received 18 Mar 2022Land south west of Barrow and west of Whalley Road Barrow
Received 18 Mar 2022Lower Abbott House Abbott Brow Mellor BB2 7HU
Received 18 Mar 2022land rear of 2 Bramley View Clitheroe Road Whalley BB7 9AL
Received 18 Mar 2022Cockshutts Farm Main Street Pendleton Clitheroe BB7 1PT
Received 21 Mar 202213 WHITTAM CRESCENT, WHALLEY, CLITHEROE
Received 9 Apr 2002Cockshutts Farm Main Street Pendleton Clitheroe BB7 1PT
Received 21 Mar 2022Land adjacent to the Academy for Skills and Knowledge Sir Frederick Page Way Samlesbury Enterprise Zone Blackburn BB2 7FT
Received 21 Mar 2022Macfarlane Dental Practice 33a King Street Whalley Clitheroe BB7 9SP
Received 21 Mar 20227 Fort Avenue Ribchester PR3 3YH
Received 21 Mar 2022Ivy Cottage Parsonage Road Wipshire BB1 4AG
Received 21 Mar 20226 Isle of Man Ramsgreave BB1 9BW
Received 21 Mar 2022Plane Tree Farm Chipping Road Chaigley BB7 3LT
Received 21 Mar 2022Lawsonsteads Farm Brookes Lane Whalley BB7 9RG
Received 21 Mar 20226a Blackburn Road Ribchester PR3 3YP
Received 21 Mar 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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