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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.
6,042 approved · 1,187 refused · 381 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land At Cowm Park Way South Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire
Received 24 Mar 2015Land At Cowm Park Way South Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire
Received 24 Mar 201534 Fernhill Drive Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 8JS
Received 25 Mar 2015Shoe Tree House Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7HB
Received 26 Mar 2015Unit 1A New Hall Hey Business Park New Hall Hey Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6HR
Received 27 Mar 2015Interfloor Broadway Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4LS
Received 27 Mar 2015Alderwood Market Street Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0JH
Received 30 Mar 2015Land To Rear 4 East View Oak Street Shawforth OL12 8NT
Received 30 Mar 2015Former Cloughfold Dairy Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 30 Mar 2015Land Off Lawson Street Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire
Received 30 Mar 201524 Rising Bridge Road Haslingden Rossendale BB4 5BL
Received 31 Mar 201556 Deardengate Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5SN
Received 1 Apr 201556 Deardengate Haslingden Rossendale BB4 5SN
Received 1 Apr 20156 Sunnyside Close Reeds Holme Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8PE
Received 1 Apr 201531 Hyacinth Close Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6JU
Received 1 Apr 2015Unit 1 New Hall Hey Business Park New Hall Hey Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6HR
Received 2 Apr 2015The Garden Centre Grange Road Facit Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8LF
Received 7 Apr 2015CO-OP - Late Shop 1 Thorneylea Whitworth Rochdale Rossendale OL12 8QY
Received 9 Apr 2015C0 0P 1 Thorneylea Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8QY
Received 10 Apr 20157 Duckworth Hall Duckworth Lane Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6JN
Received 13 Apr 2015Green Lowe Farm Coal Pit Lane Whitewell Bottom Rossendale BB4 9SA
Received 13 Apr 2015Railings At The Junction Of Holly Mount Way And St Mary's Way Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8EL
Received 13 Apr 2015Acre Bungalow Blackburn Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5AZ
Received 14 Apr 20159 Yarmouth Avenue Haslingden Rossendale BB4 6SU
Received 14 Apr 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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