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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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Rossendale Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
5,886 approved · 1,154 refused · 381 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Apr 1975 to 7 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
Farmers Glory Inn Roundhill Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5TU
Received 4 Dec 2013Huttock Top Farm Newchurch Old Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8HS
Received 5 Dec 2013Jobcentre Plus Gladstone Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 9JZ
Received 5 Dec 2013Jobcentre Plus Gladstone Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 9JZ
Received 5 Dec 2013Unit 10 Cuba Industrial Estate Bolton Road North Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0NE
Received 5 Dec 2013Land To The Rear Of 6 Lomas Lane Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 5 Dec 2013Holy Trinity C Of E Primary School Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0QW
Received 6 Dec 2013Land At Cowm Park Way South Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire
Received 6 Dec 201312 The Stables Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8BL
Received 6 Dec 20135 Anderson Close Bacup Lancashire OL13 9QP
Received 6 Dec 201350 Hall Carr Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6AW
Received 6 Dec 2013123 Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 7SU
Received 9 Dec 20135 Alderwood Grove Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0HQ
Received 9 Dec 2013Ravenshore Farm Holcombe Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4AN
Received 9 Dec 2013Land At Holcombe Road Helmshore Rossendale BB4 4NB
Received 10 Dec 20139 Stone Street Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7BP
Received 10 Dec 2013Alden Barn Alden Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire
Received 10 Dec 20131 Woodside Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6QQ
Received 11 Dec 2013Bacup Leisure Hall Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8AG
Received 11 Dec 2013Kashmir House Co Operation Street Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7QL
Received 11 Dec 2013Wooley Lane Farm Wooley Lane Baxenden Accrington Lancashire
Received 11 Dec 2013Lumb Valley Viaduct Meadow Park Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire
Received 12 Dec 20136 Heatherlands Shawforth Rochdale OL12 8NW
Received 16 Dec 20139 East Bank Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6NX
Received 17 Dec 2013Records 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 Rossendale 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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