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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
BARN AT ASPINALL FARM, DINCKLEY, BLACKBURN
Received 23 Sept 200310 Chew Mill Way Whalley BB7 9YL
Received 28 Aug 202616 Oaklea Gardens Barrow BB7 9UP
Received 3 Sept 202632 KNOWSLEY ROAD, WILPSHIRE, NR. BLACKBURN
Received 23 Sept 20031 Bramley View Clitheroe Road Whalley BB7 9AL
Received 4 Sept 2026Archway House Sawley Road Sawley BB7 4LE
Received 4 Sept 2026Phynis Farm Catlow Road Slaidburn BB7 3AQ
Received 4 Sept 2026Land adj. to 168 Lammack Road, Blackburn
Received 7 Sept 2026The Wardens House, Hospital Cottages, West Bradford Road, Waddington, BB7 3JB
Received 4 Sept 2026Hall Croft Old Chatburn Road Worston BB7 1QA
Received 7 Sept 202610 WADDOW GREEN, CLITHEROE, BB7 2NL
Received 8 Oct 2003Ribchester St Wilfrids C of E Primary School Ribchester PR3 3XP
Received 9 Sept 2026Beechfield Littlemoor Clitheroe BB7 1HF
Received 10 Sept 2026THE FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, BACK LANE, NEWTON, NR CLITHEROE
Received 9 Oct 2003Land rear of Sabden Village Hall Wesley Street Sabden BB7 9EH
Received 11 Sept 2026The Hawthorns West Bradford Road Waddington BB7 3JE
Received 14 Sept 2026Gregsons Farm Settle Road Newsholme BB7 4JF
Received 14 Sept 2026Skretting Shay Lane Longridge Preston Lancs
Received 8 Feb 2005THE FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, BACK LANE, NEWTON, NR CLITHEROE
Received 9 Oct 2003Land adjacent to 5 Stonewater Close Barrow BB7 9ZU
Received 16 Sept 2026PARKHEAD FARMHOUSE, ACCRINGTON ROAD, WHALLEY, CLITHEROE
Received 9 Oct 200320 CHURCH STREET, RIBCHESTER, PRESTON
Received 21 Oct 200373 Rowan Avenue Shireburne Caravan Park Edisford Road Waddington BB7 3LB
Received 18 Sept 2026Land north of Lyndale Avenue Wilpshire
Received 22 Sept 2026Records 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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