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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.
5,947 approved · 1,167 refused · 381 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Causeway Head Farm Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8RQ
Received 13 Feb 2014Constable Lee St Pauls C Of E School Calder Road Constable Lee Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8HT
Received 13 Feb 2014Setco Automotive (uk) Ltd York Avenue Haslingden Lancashire BB4 4HU
Received 14 Feb 2014100-102 Bury Road Rawtenstall Lancashire BB4 6DD
Received 14 Feb 2014Banks Of The River Irwell Near Bolton Road North Stubbins Ramsbottom Lancashire
Received 17 Feb 2014Eaves Farm Helmshore Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BL8 4PE
Received 17 Feb 20145 Cambrian Way Haslingden Lancashire BB4 6TN
Received 17 Feb 20149 Springbank Gardens Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8UH
Received 18 Feb 20142 Plant Close Croston Close Road Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL9 6TB
Received 18 Feb 2014The DIY Shop 9 - 17 Warwick Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5LR
Received 18 Feb 2014Land At Swinshaw Farm Goodshaw Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RB
Received 19 Feb 2014Reeds House Farm Reeds Lane Reeds Holme Rossendale BB4 8TG
Received 19 Feb 2014Tesco Syke Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6LY
Received 20 Feb 2014Tesco Syke Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6LY
Received 20 Feb 2014226 Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7QX
Received 20 Feb 20143 Orama Avenue Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8ED
Received 20 Feb 2014Heron Place Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 21 Feb 2014Albert Mill Albert Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8PJ
Received 24 Feb 2014338 Edgeside Lane Edgeside Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9UD
Received 24 Feb 2014Pewitt Hall Farm Back Lane Rising Bridge Accrington Lancashire BB5 2DZ
Received 24 Feb 201413 Brandwood Park Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0PA
Received 25 Feb 2014Land To The North Of Hen Heads Farm Kings Highway Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 25 Feb 201422 Goodshaw Avenue Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8BY
Received 25 Feb 2014Land To The Rear Of 73 Cutler Lane Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0HW
Received 27 Feb 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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