Consultations
View our current consultations and have your say.
Printed copies are also available from the council offices on Church Walk, Clitheroe.
Lancashire Waste Partnership Waste Strategy - A Low Waste Lancashire 2026 to 2036
Closing date: Sunday 9 August 2026
The Lancashire Waste Partnership are updating their strategy for managing waste across Lancashire, including Ribble Valley. The new draft strategy ‘A low waste Lancashire’ considers what happens to your recycling and rubbish and sets out the future direction for collection, management and disposal services.
Have your say on the draft strategy, its vision, objectives and proposed actions. The link to the survey is below and will take no more than 10 minutes for you to complete.
Completing this survey will help understand what matters to you.
The feedback received from the public consultation will be used to develop the final waste strategy due to be published later in 2026.
Supporting documents
Lancashire Waste Partnership Strategy Summary
Lancashire Waste Partnership Full Draft Strategy
Ribble Valley Local Plan Scoping Consultation
Closing date: Friday 14 August 2026
This is the first stage of consultation in the preparation of a new Local Plan for the current administrative area of the Ribble Valley.
The council has a statutory duty to prepare a Local Plan and keep it updated. The existing Local Plan, referred to as the Ribble Valley Local Development Framework (LDF), was formally prepared and adopted by the council in two stages: the Core Strategy in December 2014; and the Housing and Economic Development DPD and Proposal’s Map in November 2019. Together, these documents guide planning and development in the borough up to 2028.
The council is now preparing a new single document, to be known as the Ribble Valley Local Plan. The process of preparing a new Local Plan gives us a chance to look at what’s changed locally; maintain conformity with national planning policy; and respond to new or emerging social, environmental, and economic priorities.
Our new Local Plan will be in a predominantly digital format produced within a 30-month period. It will set out the vision, objectives, and planning policies that will shape how Ribble Valley grows and changes cover a period of up to fifteen years. Addressing matters such as housing, employment, infrastructure, the natural and historic environment, and the health and wellbeing of communities.
Following publication of the formal Notice of Commencement alongside the Local Plan Timetable both of which can be viewed at Local Plan – Ribble Valley Borough Council this stage of the Local Plan preparation process invites your views on the key issues and priorities the Local Plan should address, and what it should contain. Your feedback at this stage will help shape the plan’s focus and direction from the start. We are also asking how we should engage with communities and stakeholders as we prepare the plan.
The questionnaire will take approx. 40 minutes to complete depending on how much information you want to include. It is completely anonymous, unless you decide to share this information with us, which we will not share with anyone else.
Ribble Valley Borough Council Mobile CCTV Survey
Closing date: Sunday 23 August 2026
Ribble Valley Borough Council continues to experience issues with environmental crime, particularly fly tipping. Waste is frequently dumped illegally in rural locations, lay-bys and on highway verges, resulting in significant clean-up costs that are ultimately borne by local taxpayers.
For the 2024/25 year, local authorities in England dealt with 1.26 million incidents. The most common size category for fly-tipping incidents was equivalent to a ‘small van load’ followed by the equivalent of a ‘car boot or less’. However, there were 52,000 'tipper lorry load’ fly tipping incidents which cost local authorities a staggering £19.3 million to clear and dispose of.
As a local authority we have a statutory duty under section 33 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2023 to comply with the Surveillance Code of Practice. The Surveillance Camera Commissioner (SCC) plays a crucial role in encouraging compliance with the code. It is therefore important that we, as a local authority, understand the implications of our mobile surveillance systems and ensure that they are operated in accordance with the law and the guiding principle of the code.
Hence the reason the council would like to understand residents' views on the use of mobile CCTV cameras at known fly tipping hotspots to help prevent and deter this type of crime and protect the local environment.
These mobile CCTV cameras would be used solely for the prevention, detection, and investigation of fly tipping offences. Any evidence captured may be shared with other appropriate authorities, such as the police and Environment Agency, and used to support enforcement action and the prosecution of individuals responsible for illegal waste dumping.
The results of this survey will help the council determine the appropriate number and deployment of mobile CCTV cameras across the borough, supporting efforts to reduce environmental crime, protect communities and preserve the natural environment for residents and visitors alike.
The survey is completely anonymous, unless you decide to share this information with us.
Dog Control Public Space Protection Order (PSPO)
Closed: Friday 31 July 2026.
Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPOs) are intended to deal with a nuisance or problem in a particular geographical area that is detrimental to the local community’s quality of life, by imposing conditions on the use of that area that apply to everyone. They are designed to ensure the law-abiding majority can use and enjoy public spaces safely.
Introduced in 2017, we currently have a Dog Control PSPO in place to tackle dog fouling and problematic dog behaviour across the borough. The Order came into effect on the 19 October 2023 and the law states that a PSPO expires after three years unless it is reviewed and extended by the council.
Therefore, we are keen to hear from the local community on whether the existing conditions of the PSPO should continue.
If, following consideration of the consultation exercise, the council approve an extension, the Order will expire on 20 October 2026 unless further extended.
The survey is completely anonymous, unless you decide to share this information with us, which we will not share with anyone else.
Public Health Place Tool - How Good is Our Place?
Closed: Friday 31 July 2026
The Place Standard is a simple tool to structure a conversation about a place. It helps people to think about both the physical and social aspects of places, and the important relationship between them. It has 14 themes, each with a main question and further prompts to support conversations, inform the assessment and identify issues for improvement.
It will take about 20 minutes to complete depending on how much information you want to include.