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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.
6,079 approved · 1,210 refused · 381 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Apr 1975 to 7 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Myrtle Earth Farm Edge Lane Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7SS
Received 23 Oct 2015Scout Barn Farm Scout Road Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0RQ
Received 27 Oct 2015Shawclough Farm Lumb Lane Whitewell Bottom Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9RW
Received 27 Oct 20159 Holden Place Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4PU
Received 27 Oct 2015Interfloor Broadway Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4LS
Received 27 Oct 2015Mangle Fold Barn Elm Street Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0JU
Received 28 Oct 2015Carter Place Stables Hall Park Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5BQ
Received 30 Oct 2015Former Kearns Mill Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire
Received 30 Oct 2015Former Kearns Mill Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire
Received 30 Oct 2015590 Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 8AJ
Received 2 Nov 2015Bentgate Cricket Ground Clod Lane Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6LR
Received 3 Nov 20154 Milne Street Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0QP
Received 3 Nov 2015Unit A1B New Hall Hey Business Park New Hall Hey Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6HH
Received 3 Nov 201510 Causeway Head Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4DW
Received 3 Nov 2015Dean Height Farm Bacup Old Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8RG
Received 3 Nov 2015Brow Edge Ending Rake Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 0TT
Received 4 Nov 2015Iron Gate Cottage Holcombe Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4AN
Received 4 Nov 2015132 Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6DJ
Received 4 Nov 201511 Aitken Street Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0QG
Received 4 Nov 2015Land Adjacent 72 Holland Avenue Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 5 Nov 201538 Heathbourne Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0SW
Received 5 Nov 2015Whinberry View Home For The Elderly Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7PA
Received 6 Nov 2015Former Whinberry View Home For The Elderly Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 7PA
Received 6 Nov 2015Land Adjacent 7 Lynns Court Weir Bacup Lancashire OL13 8RZ
Received 10 Nov 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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