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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Pavement outside CJs at 75-77 King Street Whalley BB7 9SW
Received 23 Dec 2022Pavement outside 7-9 King Street Clitheroe BB7 2EU
Received 23 Dec 2022Pavement outside 7-9 King Street Clitheroe BB7 2EU
Received 23 Dec 20221 LANGTON BROW, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON
Received 10 Apr 2002Pavement outside Boots 15-19 Castle Street Clitheroe BB7 2BT
Received 23 Dec 2022Pavement outside Boots 15-19 Castle Street Clitheroe BB7 2BT
Received 23 Dec 2022Woodland to east of Cow Ark Road Newton BB7 3DJ
Received 3 Jan 20238 Whittam Road Whalley BB7 9SB
Received 3 Jan 2023Wheatley Barn Farm Longsight Road Copster Green BB1 9ES
Received 3 Jan 2023Little Blacksticks Blacksticks Lane Chipping PR3 2WL
Received 3 Jan 2023Little Blacksticks Blacksticks Lane Chipping PR3 2WL
Received 3 Jan 2023Land at Scriddles Croft Smalden Lane Grindleton BB7 4RX
Received 3 Jan 2023Laneside House Settle Road Bolton by Bowland BD23 4SL
Received 4 Jan 2023The Cottage Barn Chapel Lane Newton BB7 3DY
Received 5 Jan 202334 HACKING DRIVE, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON
Received 12 Apr 200214 Higherfield Langho BB6 8HQ
Received 5 Jan 2023205 Pleckgate Road Ramsgreave Blackburn BB1 8QU
Received 6 Jan 202317 Straits Lane Read BB12 7PE
Received 5 Jan 2023Abbey Mill House 5 King Street Whalley Clitheroe BB7 9SP
Received 5 Jan 2023Land situated to the west of Parsonage Farm Ribchester PR3 3XS
Received 5 Jan 202360 Preston Road Longridge PR3 3BD
Received 5 Jan 202352A Lowergate Clitheroe BB7 1AD
Received 5 Jan 2023HSBC 8 Castle Gate Clitheroe BB7 1BB
Received 6 Jan 2023HSBC 8 Castle Gate Clitheroe BB7 1BB
Received 6 Jan 2023Records 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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