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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.
5,893 approved · 1,155 refused · 381 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
139 Market Street Shawforth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8NX
Received 7 Jan 2014Land South Of Bacup Hub Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire
Received 10 Jan 201496 Cherry Crescent Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6DS
Received 10 Jan 2014Jobcentre Plus Gladstone Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 9JZ
Received 13 Jan 2014Warton Metals Grove Mill Commerce Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5JT
Received 13 Jan 2014Haslingden Community Centre Bury Road Haslingden Lancashire BB4 5PG
Received 13 Jan 2014St Veronicas Rc Primary School Raven Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4EZ
Received 14 Jan 20148 Horsefield Avenue Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8SW
Received 14 Jan 20145 Chapel Terrace Meadow Park Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0QW
Received 15 Jan 20149 Rushbed Drive Reeds Holme Lancashire BB4 8NQ
Received 15 Jan 2014187 Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Lancashire BB4 8RR
Received 15 Jan 201437 South Shore Street Haslingden Lancashire BB4 5DX
Received 15 Jan 2014Holly Mount House St Marys Way Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 15 Jan 2014Plot 3 Garage Site Bankside Lane Bacup Lancashire
Received 20 Jan 2014Land To The West Of A682 Burnley Road Loveclough BB4 8QY Opposite The Junction With Goodshaw Avenue North (Land Opposite 1029 Burnley Road) Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 20 Jan 2014Land To The North Of Scout Moor Wind Farm Gincroft Lane Edenfield Bury Lancashire
Received 21 Jan 2014Baxenden Methodist Church Blackburn Road Rising Bridge Accrington Lancashire BB5 2RY
Received 21 Jan 2014Unit 4 Rising Bridge Business And Enterprise Village Blackburn Road Rising Bridge Accrington Lancashire BB5 2AL
Received 22 Jan 201418 Rook Hill Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0SP
Received 22 Jan 2014Hare And Hounds 391 Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0NB
Received 23 Jan 2014Delgrove Lodge 6 Healey Grove Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8RX
Received 23 Jan 2014Clifton Farm Harrow Stiles Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 8RF
Received 24 Jan 2014Clifton Farm Harrow Stiles Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 8RF
Received 24 Jan 2014Madison Park Wine Bar 2 Burnley Road Rawtenstall Lancashire BB4 8EW
Received 27 Jan 2014Records 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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