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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.
6,054 approved · 1,191 refused · 381 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Wavell House Holcombe Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire
Received 29 May 2015146 Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RS
Received 29 May 201536 Turnpike Newchurch BB4 9DU
Received 1 Jun 20159 Hollinwood Drive Reeds Holme Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8DE
Received 2 Jun 2015The Corn Exchange Roberts Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8EU
Received 2 Jun 2015Water Treatment Works Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RG
Received 2 Jun 20152 Edge Lane Cloughfold Rossendale BB4 7SS
Received 3 Jun 201565 Fields Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6QA
Received 3 Jun 201511 Aitken Street Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0QG
Received 4 Jun 2015Land To The North Of Hen Heads Farm Kings Highway Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 4 Jun 2015546 And 548 Manchester Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6LN
Received 8 Jun 2015Hen Heads Farm Kings Highway Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB5 2DL
Received 8 Jun 2015J&J Ormerods PLC Wardle Street Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0HB
Received 8 Jun 201511 Knowl Meadow Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4LW
Received 8 Jun 20153 Meadow Park Irwell Vale Lancashire BL0 0QB
Received 8 Jun 20153 Market Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 8EX
Received 9 Jun 2015Shawforth Chapel Market Street Shawforth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8HF
Received 10 Jun 2015Horse And Jockey Hotel 85 Market Street Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0JQ
Received 12 Jun 2015107 Hollin Way Reeds Holme Rossendale BB4 8ED
Received 12 Jun 201559 Windermere Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9DN
Received 12 Jun 2015Gate House Farm Bamford Road Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0RT
Received 15 Jun 2015Far Pastures Farm Burnley Road East Waterfoot BB4 9NH
Received 16 Jun 2015390 Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7SN
Received 16 Jun 2015Land To The North Of Mitchell's House Reservoirs East Of The A56 Off Kings Highway Haslingden Rossendale
Received 17 Jun 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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