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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22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
ROSE BANK, LAMBING CLOUGH LANE, HURST GREEN, CLITHEROE, BB7 9QN
Received 10 Oct 2000MOOR HOUSE FARM, WOODS BROW, BALDERSTONE, BLACKBURN
Received 13 Mar 20018 MAIN STREET, BOLTON-BY-BOWLAND, CLITHEROE BB7 4NW
Received 14 Mar 2001WHEATLEY BARN FARM, LONGSIGHT ROAD, SALESBURY, BLACKBURN
Received 14 Mar 2001HORTON GRANGE FARM, HORTON ROAD, HORTON IN CRAVEN, SKIPTON
Received 21 Dec 2000WYCONGILL FARM, HOLDEN LANE, BOLTON BY BOWLAND, CLITHEROE
Received 2 Jan 2001Harling House Malt Kiln Brow Chipping Preston Lancashire
Received 25 Oct 2005Worthalls Farm Whalley Road Read Lancashire
Received 31 Aug 2004HORTON GRANGE, HORTON ROAD, HORTON IN CRAVEN, SKIPTON
Received 21 Dec 200077 GARAGE, A 59, GISBURN, CLITHEROE
Received 22 Dec 2000LAND AT THORNEYHOLME, WHALLEY ROAD, BARROW, CLITHEROE
Received 22 Dec 2000LOWOOD, WHINS LANE, READ, BURNLEY
Received 29 Jan 2001HIGHER TRAPP FARM, TRAPP LANE, SIMONSTONE, BURNLEY
Received 30 Jan 2001LAND OFF, NORTHCOTE ROAD, LANGHO, BLACKBURN
Received 18 Dec 2000HUNTERS CROFT, 69 MELLOR BROW, MELLOR, BLACKBURN BB2 7PN
Received 31 Jan 2001REAR OF THE OLD POST HOUSE HOTEL, KING STREET, CLITHEROE, LANCS
Received 30 Jan 2001LAND ADJACENT RIVER RIBBLE, GISBURN MILL, MILL LANE, GISBURN, CLITHEROE
Received 1 Feb 2001ELSWICK FARM, MELLOR BROW, MELLOR, BLACKBURN BB2 7EX
Received 22 Feb 200130 Siddows Avenue Clitheroe Lancashire
Received 1 Sept 2004SHAJAN RESTAURANT, LONGSIGHT ROAD, CLAYTON-LE-DALE, BLACKBURN
Received 22 Feb 20013 RIDDINGS LANE, WHALLEY, CLITHEROE
Received 22 Feb 2001LANESIDE FARM, WEST BRADFORD ROAD, WADDINGTON, CLITHEROE
Received 15 May 2001HURST GREEN BOWLING CLUB, SMITHY ROW, HURST GREEN, BLACKBURN
Received 23 Feb 2001SAMLESBURY AERODROME, MYERSCOUGH ROAD, BALDERSTONE, BLACKBURN
Received 23 Feb 2001Records 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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