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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.
6,177 approved · 1,228 refused · 382 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
19 Hurst Lane Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7RE
Received 9 Sept 2016Land Adjacent Crawshaw Hall Barn Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8LW
Received 12 Sept 201643 Stubbins Street Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0NL
Received 13 Sept 2016139 Mercer Crescent Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4DQ
Received 13 Sept 2016St John The Evangelist Parish Church Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8AB
Received 13 Sept 2016St John The Evangelist Parish Church Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8AB
Received 13 Sept 20165 Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6QS
Received 14 Sept 201612 Bowker Street Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0QQ
Received 14 Sept 20162 Heycrofts View Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0HG
Received 14 Sept 201634 Penny Lodge Lane Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8PD
Received 15 Sept 2016Cob House Nab Croston Close Road Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL9 6TD
Received 15 Sept 201615 Greenfield Street Haslingden Rossendale BB4 5TG
Received 15 Sept 2016Nicholas Folly Higher Greens Blackwood Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0JS
Received 16 Sept 2016Site Of Former Gordon Works Ashworth Road Edgeside Rossendale BB4 9JE
Received 16 Sept 201636 Eden Avenue Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0LD
Received 16 Sept 2016Manchester Road Methodist Church Manchester Road Haslingden Rossendale
Received 19 Sept 2016West View Football Ground Cowtoot Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 8EE
Received 19 Sept 2016Junction Of Haslingden Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6QZ
Received 21 Sept 2016The Bungalow Greens Lane Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0JL
Received 21 Sept 2016The Boundary 7 Worswick Green Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7NN
Received 22 Sept 2016Burwood Rest Home 2-8 Todmorden Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9BA
Received 22 Sept 2016St Veronicas Presbytery Helmshore Road Helmshore Rossendale BB4 4JR
Received 22 Sept 2016Bentgate Cricket Ground Clod Lane Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6LR
Received 26 Sept 2016Woolpack Hotel 488-490 Manchester Road Haslingden Rossendale BB4 6LN
Received 26 Sept 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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