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.
3,189 approved · 605 refused · 182 withdrawn. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Alice Ingham Court Lisbon Street Rochdale OL12 7AP
Received Not publishedThe Club 205 Drake Street Rochdale OL11 1EF
Received Not publishedLand Adjacent To 418 Bury Road Rochdale OL11 5EU
Received Not publishedLand At Lane End Farm, Lane End, Hopwood Heywood, OL10 2JE
Received Not publishedSouthgate Industrial Estate, Unit 9 Green Lane Heywood Rochdale OL10 1ND
Received Not published29 Harbour Lane Milnrow Rochdale OL16 4EL
Received Not publishedCalderbrook Alpacas Todmorden Road Littleborough OL15 9LY
Received Not publishedPit Stop High Street Rochdale OL12 0NS
Received Not publishedHarefield Hall Farm Chadwick Lane Heywood Rochdale OL10 1QL
Received Not publishedLand Off Chestnut Way Littleborough OL15 8RW
Received Not publishedLand Opposite To Church Of The Latter Day Saints Manchester Road, Castleton North, Rochdale OL11 4JG
Received Not publishedLand At Borrowdale Park Borrowdale Road Middleton
Received Not publishedHopwood Hall College, Middleton Campus Rochdale Road Middleton Rochdale M24 6XH
Received Not publishedWhitfield Bottoms, Rosehill Cottage, Whitfield Crescent, Newhey, Rochdale, OL16 4LY
Received Not publishedUnits 30 And 31 Spotland Bridge Mill Spotland Road, Rochdale, OL11 5BU
Received Not publishedUnits 30 And 31 Spotland Bridge Mill, Spotland Road Rochdale, OL11 5BU
Received Not published33 - 41 Ramsay St 33 - 41 Ramsay St Rochdale OL16 2BX
Received Not published1 Market Place Middleton M24 6UQ
Received Not publishedCrimble Bungalow Crimble Lane Heywood Rochdale OL11 4AB
Received Not publishedDavid Lloyd Health Club Heywood Old Road Middleton M24 4TH
Received Not published418 Bury Road Rochdale OL11 5EU
Received Not publishedValume Ltd Ccg Windscreens Ainsworth Street Rochdale OL16 5QZ
Received Not published276 Yorkshire Street Rochdale OL16 2DR
Received Not published43 Heywood Old Road, Middleton, M24 4QS
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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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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