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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
16 Brookes Lane Whalley BB7 9RG
Received 26 Feb 2026Land off B6478 Wigglesworth Road Slaidburn
Received 26 Feb 2026Dockber Laithe Farm Sawley Old Brow Sawley BB7 4LF
Received 26 Feb 2026Abbeyfield House Union Street Clitheroe BB7 2NH
Received 26 Feb 2026Highfield Garstang Road Chipping PR3 2QH
Received 26 Feb 2026Former Pitch and Putt Field at Edisford Road Clitheroe BB7 3LA
Received 27 Feb 2026Land off Shire Lane (adj Shire Lane House) Hurst Green BB7 9QR
Received 2 Mar 20263 Poplar Way Barrow Clitheroe BB7 9ZN
Received 2 Mar 2026The Hey Cutler Lane Chipping Preston PR3 2SY
Received 3 Mar 2026GLENEAGLES, CLITHEROE ROAD, BARROW, CLITHEROE
Received 29 Jan 20035 Darwen Close Longridge PR3 3TP
Received 3 Mar 202645 - 47 Whalley Road Clitheroe BB7 1EE
Received 3 Mar 2026Hodder Croft Newton Road Newton BB7 3DY
Received 3 Mar 20261 Cockleach Cottages Chipping Road Longridge PR3 2NB
Received 4 Mar 2026Duck House Farm Brow Top Grindleton BB7 4QR
Received 4 Mar 2026The Compleat Food Group Lincoln Way Clitheroe BB7 1QL
Received 4 Mar 202619 Browgate Sawley BB7 4NB
Received 5 Mar 2026Writtenstone Farm Writtenstone Lane Longridge PR3 2ZN
Received 5 Mar 202616 Sutherland Close Wilpshire BB1 9LT
Received 27 Feb 20267 Hillside Drive West Bradford Lancashire BB7 4TG
Received 5 Mar 2026RENDEZVOUS, 16 ACCRINGTON ROAD, WHALLEY, CLITHEROE
Received 31 Oct 2002Land to the rear of Pimlico House Gisburn Road Gisburn BB7 4ES
Received 6 Mar 202626 Hawthorne Place Clitheroe BB7 2HU
Received 6 Mar 2026Hambledon View Clerk Hill Road Sabden Lancashire BB7 9DR
Received 9 Mar 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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