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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Root Farm Dunsop Bridge Clitheroe BB7 3BB
Received 10 Oct 2023McDonalds Restaurant Ltd Ribble Valley Enterprise Park Holm Road Barrow BB7 9WF
Received 10 Oct 2023Public Right of Way through the garden of The Old Coach House Saccary Lane Mellor BB1 9DL
Received 9 Oct 2023Carter Fold Slaidburn Road Waddington BB7 3JQ
Received 10 Oct 2023Barn 2 Dinkling Green Farm Little Bowland Road Chipping BB7 3BN
Received 12 Oct 2023Barn 2 Dinkling Green Farm Little Bowland Road Chipping BB7 3BN
Received 12 Oct 2023Parsonage Farm Church Street Ribchester PR3 3YE
Received 11 Oct 2023Oakworth Old Back Lane Wiswell BB7 9BS
Received 11 Oct 2023CARRIAGE DRIVE, BROCKHALL VILLAGE, OLD LANGHO
Received 24 Jul 2003Rossendale House York Street Clitheroe BB7 2DL
Received 11 Oct 20237 Stoneygate Lane Ribchester PR3 2ZS
Received 12 Oct 20238 The Crescent Dunsop Bridge BB7 3BA
Received 13 Oct 202315 Waddow Grove Waddington BB7 3JL
Received 13 Oct 20237 Masefield Close Brockhall Village Old Langho BB6 8HS
Received 13 Oct 2023Old Barn House Simonstone Lane Simonstone BB12 7NX
Received 13 Oct 2023Unit 26 Mitton Road Business Park Whalley BB7 9YE
Received 13 Oct 2023Braemar House Somerset Avenue Wilpshire BB1 9JD
Received 16 Oct 2023Scriddles Farm Grindleton Nr Clitheroe BB7 4RX
Received 18 Oct 2023Cunliffe House Farm Longsight Road Langho BB6 8AD
Received 17 Oct 2023KILORAN, RADECLYFFE STREET, CLITHEROE, LANCS BB7 2HL
Received 30 May 200329 Mellor Brow Mellor BB2 7EX
Received 13 Oct 20231 Laneside Cottages Sawley BB7 4LF
Received 16 Oct 2023Smithy Cottage Beech Mount Waddington BB7 3HS
Received 16 Oct 2023Maple House 3 Maple Close Whalley BB7 9AG
Received 16 Oct 2023Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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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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