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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.
6,258 approved · 1,244 refused · 383 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Vale Lodge Meadow Park Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0QR
Received 13 Jan 201745 Gregory Fold Helmshore Rossendale BB4 4JW
Received 16 Jan 2017Rawtenstall Town Square Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 17 Jan 201719 Hargreaves Drive Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8SP
Received 18 Jan 201723 Lodge View Lodge Mill Lane Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0SY
Received 18 Jan 2017296 Manchester Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6PU
Received 20 Jan 2017Brex Farm Brex Coal Pit Lane Whitewell Bottom Rossendale Lancashire OL13 8NN
Received 23 Jan 2017Land Off Burnley Road & Meadows Avenue Bacup Lancashire
Received 23 Jan 2017Edge House Conway Road Higher Cloughfold Rossendale BB4 7ST
Received 20 Jan 201744 Staghills Road Newchurch Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7TS
Received 25 Jan 201717 Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6QS
Received 26 Jan 20174 Park Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6PP
Received 26 Jan 201723 Market Street Shawforth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8ND
Received 27 Jan 2017The Barn Lower Bankside Farm Burnley Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0QU
Received 27 Jan 2017Hollin Farm Cottage Fish Rake Lane Edenfield Bury Lancashire BB4 7AH
Received 30 Jan 2017322 Helmshore Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4DJ
Received 19 Jan 2017Near Pastures Farm Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale BB4 9NH
Received 2 Feb 2017Land To Rear 311-317 Market Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8PW
Received 2 Feb 2017Lamp Post 4 Blackburn Road SW Blackburn Road Rising Bridge Accrington BB5 2SA
Received 3 Feb 2017Land Between Milner Street And Cowm Park Way South Whitworth Rochdale
Received 6 Feb 20179 Windermere Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9DN
Received 2 Feb 20171 Plant Close Croston Close Road Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL9 6TB
Received 7 Feb 201757 Fairfield Avenue Edgeside Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9TQ
Received 6 Feb 201757 Fairfield Avenue Edgeside Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9TQ
Received 6 Feb 2017Records 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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