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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
14 Netherwood Gardens Brockhall Village Langho Blackburn LANCS
Received 15 Dec 2004Wyngates 26 Longridge Road Chipping
Received 21 Dec 2004Brookside County Primary School Bright Street Clitheroe Lancashire
Received 17 Dec 2004Greenacre Garage Greenacre Street Clitheroe Lancashire
Received 23 Dec 200436 RIVERSIDE, LOW MOOR, CLITHEROE
Received 29 Mar 200433 RIVERLEA GARDENS, OFF HOLDEN STREET, CLITHEROE
Received 29 Mar 2004land between Farm Cottages and Tuscany Grove Brockhall Village Langho Blackburn
Received 23 Dec 20049 SUNNYSIDE AVENUE, WILPSHIRE, BLACKBURN BB1 9LW
Received 29 Mar 20042 Moorland Avenue Clitheroe Lancs
Received 23 Dec 20041 Stable Close Mill Lane Gisburn Lancs
Received 24 Dec 200418 York Street Clitheroe Lancs
Received 4 Jan 2005Whalley Arms Hotel 60 King Street Whalley Clitheroe Lancashire
Received 24 Oct 200578 Branch Road Mellor Brook Lancashire BB2 7NY
Received 28 Jul 2004Parrock Head Farm Slaidburn Lancs
Received 4 Jan 2005Lyme House Farm Thornley Longridge Preston
Received 4 Jan 2005Hurst Green Bowling Club Smithy Row Hurst Green Clitheroe Lancs
Received 4 Jan 2005Roefield Nursing & Rest Home Edisford Road Clitheroe Lancs
Received 5 Jan 200541A CHURCH STREET, RIBCHESTER, PRESTON
Received 29 Mar 2004UNIT 3, 28-30 PARSON LANE, CLITHEROE, LANCS
Received 29 Mar 200416 BEAVER CLOSE, WILPSHIRE, BLACKBURN
Received 20 Apr 2004HIGHER HOUSE BARN, BACK LANE, NEWTON, NR CLITHEROE
Received 22 Apr 2004SABDEN PRIMARY SCHOOL, WHALLEY ROAD, SABDEN, CLITHEROE
Received 10 May 2004Lime House Farm Whalley Road Pendleton
Received 29 Apr 2005THREE FISHES PH, MITTON, WHALLEY, CLITHEROE
Received 23 Apr 2004Records 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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