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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.
6,137 approved · 1,220 refused · 381 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
110 Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8DB
Received 31 May 2016Lockgate Farm Haslingden Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6QG
Received 2 Jun 2016Higher Tunstead Farm Tunstead Lane Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 8NA
Received 2 Jun 2016New Hey Mill Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0BH
Received 2 Jun 201634 Penny Lodge Lane Loveclough Rossendale BB4 8PD
Received 2 Jun 2016Croft End Mill Bolton Road North Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0NA
Received 3 Jun 2016Whinberry View Home For The Elderly Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 7PA
Received 3 Jun 20162 The Parade Broadway Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4HD
Received 3 Jun 2016Land To The Rear Of Buxton Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire
Received 3 Jun 2016Unit 6 Victoria Way Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7NY
Received 6 Jun 20164 Cliffe Bank Hamlet Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9QR
Received 6 Jun 2016247 Burnley Road East & 4-6 Co-operation Street Waterfoot Rossendale BB4 9HQ
Received 7 Jun 2016Sheephouse Farm Greens Lane Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0JS
Received 8 Jun 2016Land East Of 10 Clough End Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5AN
Received 8 Jun 20163 Meadow Park Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0QB
Received 8 Jun 2016Land South Of Nabb Bridge Water Rossendale BB4 9RA
Received 8 Jun 2016401 Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6EH
Received 9 Jun 201632 Hall Park Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5BQ
Received 24 Jun 2016Ewood Bridge Mill Manchester Road Haslingden Rossendale BB4 6LB
Received 13 Jun 20165 Manchester Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5SL
Received 14 Jun 2016Foothpath Outside Hollands Pies Blackburn Road Rising Bridge Accrington BB5 2SA
Received 14 Jun 2016105 Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 7SU
Received 15 Jun 201615 Lea Bank Cloughfold Rossendale BB4 7TP
Received 15 Jun 20168 Rooley View Bacup Lancashire OL13 8UY
Received 16 Jun 2016Records 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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