Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
3,138 approved · 590 refused · 180 withdrawn. Most recent record check: 11 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Site Of Unit 1 Brown Street, Littleborough
Received Not publishedBall Barn Farm Syke Road Rochdale OL12 9TD
Received Not publishedSladen Wood Mill Todmorden Road Littleborough Rochdale OL15 9EW
Received Not published14 Gilwood Grove Middleton M24 6TH
Received Not publishedLand At Royle Road, Rochdale, OL11 3EH
Received Not publishedLower Tack Lea Farm Bury And Rochdale Old Road Heywood Rochdale BL9 6UY
Received Not published190 Heywood Old Road, Middleton, M24 4GR
Received Not published16 Wrenbury Drive Rochdale OL16 4PJ
Received Not publishedFormer Tack Lea Works Bury And Rochdale Old Road Rochdale
Received Not published5 Uplands Middleton M24 1EA
Received Not publishedLand At The Junction Of Heywood Old Road And Public Right Of Way MidRupp110a, Middleton
Received Not published142 Hollin Lane Middleton Rochdale M24 5LB
Received Not published80-82 Molesworth Street Rochdale OL16 2AW
Received Not published11 Eskdale Avenue Rochdale OL11 3JX
Received Not published847 Rochdale Road Middleton M24 2RA
Received Not publishedPartnership House Sparrow Hill Rochdale OL16 1QT
Received Not published2 The Woods Rochdale OL11 3NT
Received Not published4 Mount Fold Middleton M24 1FE
Received Not published389 Bury And Rochdale Old Road Heywood OL10 4AT
Received Not published43 Bamford Way, Rochdale, OL11 5NB
Received Not published37 Tyrone Drive Rochdale OL11 4BE
Received Not publishedHalf Acre House Residential Care Home Roch Valley Way Rochdale OL11 4DB
Received Not publishedSeven Oaks Meadowcroft Lane Rochdale OL11 5HN
Received Not publishedPartnership House Sparrow Hill Rochdale OL16 1QT
Received Not publishedRecords are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Rochdale Metropolitan 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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