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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.
6,009 approved · 1,181 refused · 381 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7 Lower House Green Water Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9UH
Received 5 Jan 2015121 Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RR
Received 7 Jan 20154 Cliffe Bank Hamlet Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9QR
Received 7 Jan 20158 Edward Street Facit Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8LE
Received 7 Jan 2015Ending Hill Market Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8RW
Received 8 Jan 201548 Hyacinth Close Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6JU
Received 8 Jan 2015715 Market Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8LD
Received 9 Jan 201519 Rosebank Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0PY
Received 9 Jan 2015New Haven Childrens Day Nursery 546 & 548 Manchester Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6LN
Received 9 Jan 201536 York Street Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8NL
Received 12 Jan 2015354 Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6EH
Received 13 Jan 2015Millbeck Lodge Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7DQ
Received 14 Jan 2015Acre Bungalow Blackburn Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5AZ
Received 15 Jan 2015Tor View School Clod Lane Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6LR
Received 15 Jan 2015172 - 174 Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9DQ
Received 16 Jan 201516 Victoria Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5DL
Received 19 Jan 2015390 Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6EH
Received 19 Jan 20158 Clegg Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5LW
Received 19 Jan 2015The Glory 1222 Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RG
Received 22 Jan 2015Lower Mount Pleasant Farm New Barn Lane Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7AQ
Received 23 Jan 2015Former Kearns Mill Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire
Received 26 Jan 2015Land On The East Side Of Lomas Lane Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 26 Jan 201510 Turn Hill Farm Dean Lane Water Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9NL
Received 26 Jan 2015Lumb Valley Viaduct Meadow Park Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire
Received 26 Jan 2015Records 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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