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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.
6,106 approved · 1,214 refused · 381 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
18 Hall Park Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5BQ
Received 23 Feb 2016Ta Top Farm Goodshaw Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale BB4 8TN
Received 26 Feb 2016St Peters Roman Catholic Primary School St Peters Road Newchurch Rossendale BB4 9EZ
Received 29 Feb 2016Land To East Of Ainslea Grane Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 1 Mar 2016Lench Fold Farm Lench Fold Clough Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale BB4 7AF
Received 1 Mar 2016132 Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6DJ
Received 1 Mar 201620 King Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 0AH
Received 1 Mar 2016133 Mercer Crescent Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4DQ
Received 1 Mar 2016135 Mercer Crescent Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4DQ
Received 29 Feb 20161A Deansgrave Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4BZ
Received 2 Mar 2016Coldwells Cottage Roundhill Road Haslingden Rossendale
Received 2 Mar 201641-45 Kay Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7LS
Received 3 Mar 20164 Deerplay Drive Weir Bacup Lancashire OL13 8GB
Received 3 Mar 20161 Raven Avenue Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4EZ
Received 3 Mar 2016Rockcliffe House Wesley Place Bacup Lancashire OL13 8JE
Received 1 Mar 2016121 Laneside Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6PG
Received 2 Mar 20167 Hawfinch Close Bacup Lancashire OL13 9PT
Received 3 Mar 201626 Tor View Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6AS
Received 4 Mar 2016252 Holcombe Road Helmshore Rossendale BB4 4NP
Received 4 Mar 201642 Penny Lodge Lane Loveclough Rossendale BB4 8PD
Received 4 Mar 20163 Holmes Street Water Rossendale BB4 9PT
Received 4 Mar 2016271 Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 8RR
Received 4 Mar 201612 Clayton Avenue Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6EW
Received 4 Mar 2016Tonquin 306 Helmshore Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4DJ
Received 8 Mar 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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