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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land at Higher Standen Farm and Part of Littlemoor Farm Clitheroe
Received 9 Jan 202599 King Street Whalley BB7 9SW
Received 10 Jan 2025Bromiley Ribchester Road Clayton le Dale BB1 9EG
Received 10 Jan 2025Half Acre Further Lane Mellor BB2 7PZ
Received 10 Jan 2025Higher Edge Farm Tinklers Lane Slaidburn BB7 4TP
Received 10 Jan 2025Writtenstone Farm Writtenstone Lane Longridge PR3 2ZN
Received 13 Jan 202539 Ribchester Road Wilpshire BB1 9HU
Received 13 Jan 2025REVISHAW, SIMONSTONE LANE, SIMONSTONE, NR BURNLEY
Received 14 Nov 2003Middle Studlehurst Barn Osbaldeston Lane Osbaldeston BB2 7LZ
Received 13 Jan 2025Flat 5 Hodder Court Knowles Brow Hurst Green BB7 9PP
Received 13 Jan 2025Colliers Farm Whalley Old Road Billington BB7 9LF
Received 13 Jan 202522 Green Drive Clitheroe BB7 2BB
Received 13 Jan 2025Joes Barn Meanley Farm Easington Road Slaidburn BB7 3AF
Received 13 Jan 2025Fober Farm Newton Road Newton-in-Bowland BB7 3ED
Received 14 Jan 2025Bolton Fold Farm Alston Lane Longridge PR3 3BN
Received 16 Jan 2025rear of 18-20 Castle Street Clitheroe BB7 2BX
Received 15 Jan 202532 Parson Lane Clitheroe BB7 2JP
Received 14 Jan 2025Black House Farm Hole House Lane Slaidburn BB7 4TS
Received 15 Jan 202510 CHURCH LANE, WHALLEY, CLITHEROE
Received 24 Nov 2003Land at Rakefoot Farm Thornley Road Chaigley Clitheroe BB7 3LY
Received 17 Jan 2025Land to the south of Whalley Old Road Blackburn
Received 20 Jan 2025Land on the east side of Clerk Hill Road just to the south of the access to Whalley Golf Club Whalley
Received 21 Jan 2025Units 3 3A 4 and 4A Cheetall Farm Clitheroe Road Bashall Eaves BB7 3LH
Received 15 Jan 2025Dilworth Cottage Ward Green Lane Longridge PR3 2ZL
Received 15 Jan 2025Records 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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