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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.
6,259 approved · 1,244 refused · 383 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
24 Crawshaw Grange Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8LY
Received 8 Feb 201711 Peel Drive Bacup Lancashire OL13 9PU
Received 8 Feb 2017Unit A11 Cuba Industrial Estate Bolton Road North Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0NE
Received 8 Feb 2017Ogden Temporary Bridge Irwell Vale Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6LF
Received 8 Feb 2017Tor View School Ewood Campus Clod Lane Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6LR
Received 8 Feb 201723 Helmshore Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4BG
Received 9 Feb 201721 Dean Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4DS
Received 9 Feb 2017Old Schoolhouse Bleakholt Road Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0RU
Received 13 Feb 2017388A Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7SN
Received 13 Feb 2017Fall Bank Farm Sunnybank Road Helmshore Rossendale BB4 4AL
Received 13 Feb 2017479 Blackburn Road Haslingden Rossendale BB4 5AT
Received 14 Feb 20175 Buckingham Close Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4DY
Received 14 Feb 2017Opposite 2 Albert Street Whitewell Bottom Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9RL
Received 14 Feb 201715 Victoria Court Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4EQ
Received 16 Feb 2017Park View Cottage Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7EA
Received 17 Feb 201755 Bury Road Edenfield Bury BL0 0EN
Received 17 Feb 201714 Tenterfield Street Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7BA
Received 17 Feb 2017343 Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0LD
Received 20 Feb 2017Kilnfield Farm Park Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4AR
Received 20 Feb 2017High Barn Farm Studd Brow Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8LU
Received 20 Feb 201722 Holme Vale Helmshore Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4AF
Received 20 Feb 2017Unit H Beech Industrial Estate Vale Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 9EL
Received 21 Feb 2017Valley View Farm Gincroft Lane Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0QX
Received 22 Feb 2017Nos. 1,3,7,9,11,13,15,19,21,23,25 & 27 North Street, Ramsbottom, Bury, Lancashire, BL0 0PB
Received 22 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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