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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
13 Waddow Grove Waddington Lancashire
Received 18 Aug 200589 HIGHER ROAD, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON
Received 18 Nov 2002CLEVE PRIOR, WHINS LANE, SIMONSTONE, BURNLEY
Received 12 Dec 20024 JUBILEE STREET, READ, BURNLEY
Received 12 Dec 2002DILWORTH BARN, DILWORTH HOUSE, WHALLEY ROAD, HURST GREEN, CLITHEROE
Received 17 Dec 2002WARREN FARM BARN, HURST GREEN, CLITHEROE
Received 17 Dec 200237 WOODCREST, WILPSHIRE, BLACKBURN
Received 17 Jan 200316 TOWNELEY ROAD, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON PR3 3EA
Received 17 Jan 20031 RATCLIFFE FARM BARN, LOWER ROAD, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON
Received 10 Jan 2003LEA BARN, FOUR ACRE LANE, THORNLEY WITH WHEATLEY, NR PRESTON
Received 17 Jan 2003LANESIDE, LONGWORTH ROAD, BILLINGTON, CLITHEROE
Received 17 Jan 20035 Sabden Brook Court Sabden Clitheroe Lancashire
Received 18 Aug 2005196 WHALLEY ROAD, LANGHO, BLACKBURN
Received 12 Feb 20038 BUSHBURN DRIVE, LANGHO, BLACKBURN
Received 12 Feb 2003BILLINGTON & LANGHO COMMUNITY CENTRE, WHALLEY ROAD, LANGHO, BLACKBURN
Received 12 Feb 2003PLOT 3, THE DRIVE, BROCKHALL VILLAGE, OLD LANGHO
Received 13 Feb 20037 RIBCHESTER ROAD, WILPSHIRE, NR. BLACKBURN
Received 13 Feb 200311 RIBBLESDALE AVENUE, WILPSHIRE, BLACKBURN
Received 23 Apr 2003114 WHALLEY ROAD, READ, BURNLEY
Received 23 Apr 200318 LONGRIDGE ROAD, CHIPPING, PRESTON PR3 2QD
Received 12 May 200368A HIGHFIELD ROAD, CLITHEROE, LANCS
Received 12 May 2003CLAYTON HALL, RIBCHESTER ROAD, CLAYTON-LE-DALE, BLACKBURN
Received 13 May 200314 Risedale Drive Longridge Preston Lancashire
Received 7 Sept 2005OXENDALE HALL FARM, OSBALDESTON LANE, OSBALDESTON, BLACKBURN
Received 13 May 2003Records 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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