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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Brows Farm Brows Barn (Valley View Lodges) Higher Road Longridge PR3 2YX
Received 16 Jan 2024Wyncongill Holden Lane Bolton by Bowland BB7 4LZ
Received 16 Jan 2024Burnridge House Grunsagill Road Bolton by Bowland BD23 4SL
Received 16 Jan 2024Land adjacent to 7 and 9 Windy Street PR3 2GD
Received 17 Jan 2024Land adjacent to 8 Old Hive PR3 2QQ
Received 17 Jan 2024Land to the rear and side of Maycroft House and Chipping House Cottage Hesketh Lane PR3 2TH
Received 17 Jan 2024Barclays Bank Plc 41 Castle Street Clitheroe BB7 2BT
Received 17 Jan 2024Buckley Dene Preston Road Ribchester PR3 3YD
Received 17 Jan 2024Olympic House The Sidings Whalley Lancashire
Received 27 Sept 2005MOSNA COTTAGE, NEWBY LANE, RIMINGTON, CLITHEROE
Received 19 Nov 2003Land west of Preston Road Longridge PR3 3BE
Received 17 Jan 2024Hillside Moor Lane Wiswell BB7 9DG
Received 18 Jan 202427 Limefield Avenue Whalley BB7 9RJ
Received 18 Jan 202411 York Lane Langho BB6 8DT
Received 18 Jan 2024Old Sawley Grange Gisburn Rd Sawley BB7 4LQ
Received 18 Jan 2024Beechthorpe Belle Vue Lane Waddington BB7 3HY
Received 22 Jan 2024Winckley Hall Farm Whalley Road Hurst Green BB7 9PN
Received 19 Jan 2024Land at Laund Farm Twins Brook Road Chipping PR3 2GS
Received 22 Jan 2024Greystones Barn Moor Lane Wiswell BB7 9DG
Received 23 Jan 2024Higher Commons Farm Commons Lane Balderstone BB2 7LP
Received 25 Jan 202416 WESTFIELD DRIVE, WEST BRADFORD, CLITHEROE
Received 21 Nov 2003New Page Fold Farm Cross Lane Bashall Eaves BB7 3JH
Received 24 Jan 2024Burnhouse Farm Back Lane Slaidburn BB7 3EE
Received 24 Jan 202421 Knowsley Road Wilpshire BB1 9PX
Received 24 Jan 2024Records 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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