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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.
6,179 approved · 1,229 refused · 382 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Flood Wall Mint Street Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire
Received 27 Sept 2016Belmont Farm Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8TT
Received 27 Sept 2016Land Off Taylor Holme Industrial Estate Atherton Way Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0LE
Received 27 Sept 201610 Eastwood Crescent Cloughfold Rossendale BB4 7PJ
Received 27 Sept 2016Grime Bridge Farm Carr Road Water Rossendale BB4 9RY
Received 27 Sept 2016Woodford Sunnybank Cottages Sunnybank Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4AH
Received 27 Sept 20163 Hardsough Fold Meadow Park Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0QN
Received 27 Sept 20161 East View Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0NW
Received 29 Sept 2016Carr Barn Cottage Hardman Avenue Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6BB
Received 4 Oct 2016Land To East Of 1 Springhill Avenue Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0HQ
Received 29 Sept 2016The Bungalow Lime Tree Grove Constable Lee Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8JB
Received 4 Oct 2016Land Off A682 Swanney Lodge Road Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 5 Oct 2016Highbury Bolton Road North Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0LZ
Received 5 Oct 2016Ski Rossendale Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RR
Received 6 Oct 2016140 Bankside Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 8HP
Received 6 Oct 2016Unit 22 & 29 New Hall Hey Business Park New Hall Hey Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6HL
Received 6 Oct 2016Outside 174 Haslingden Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6RE
Received 4 Oct 201659 Grasmere Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6LS
Received 4 Oct 20165-7 Deardengate Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5QN
Received 6 Oct 2016Junction Of Haslingden Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6QZ
Received 7 Oct 2016Outside Kingfisher Centre Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8EQ
Received 5 Oct 201618 The Ferns Bacup Lancashire OL13 9RP
Received 7 Oct 2016801 Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8BW
Received 10 Oct 2016Land Off A682 Swanney Lodge Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 10 Oct 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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