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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.
5,953 approved · 1,168 refused · 381 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
5 Carr Farm Carr Road Water Rossendale BB4 9RZ
Received 27 Feb 2014Land Adjacent Rossendale Golf Club Ewood Lane Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 27 Feb 2014Pavement West Of 687 Blackburn Road Rising Bridge Accrington Lancashire
Received 27 Feb 2014101 Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7SU
Received 28 Feb 2014Quaker Friends Meeting House 13 Co Operation Street Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8AG
Received 28 Feb 201463 Booth Road Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9BP
Received 3 Mar 2014Crawshaw Hall Lodge Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8LZ
Received 4 Mar 201448 Haworth Avenue Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 8SS
Received 4 Mar 20145 East Street Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4JT
Received 4 Mar 2014Dykes Barn Farm Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8RQ
Received 5 Mar 2014Lockgate Farm 456 Haslingden Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6QG
Received 5 Mar 2014Higher Fairbanks Farm Goodshawfold Road Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8UF
Received 17 Feb 2014Caswell Engineering Services Ltd Knowsley Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4RR
Received 17 Feb 2014Land At Reaps Moss Lancashire
Received 7 Mar 2014Far Bank End Farm Brex Coal Pit Lane Whitewell Bottom Lancashire OL13 8NW
Received 11 Mar 2014139 Mercer Crescent Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4DQ
Received 11 Mar 2014Land Between 388 And 390 Bury Road Rawtenstall Lancashire BB4 6EH
Received 11 Mar 201415 Middlegate Green Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8PY
Received 11 Mar 2014Land To The Rear Of 11 Pilling Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5AX
Received 11 Mar 2014Land To West Of A682 At Loveclough And To Immediate South-west Of The Municipal Recreation Ground
Received 12 Mar 2014Former Alden Cotton Mill Alden Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4AQ
Received 13 Mar 2014Under Brow Farm Laund Lane Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5UB
Received 13 Mar 2014New Mansion House Goodshawfold Road Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8QS
Received 13 Mar 2014Former Cloughfold Dairy Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 14 Mar 2014Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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