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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.
6,353 approved · 1,271 refused · 383 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
9 Priory Close Newchurch Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9HB
Received 25 Jul 2017Land West Of 250 Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire
Received 25 Jul 2017Rawtenstall Town Square Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 26 Jul 201733 Crawshaw Grange Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8LY
Received 26 Jul 2017Land North Of 14 Laneside Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 27 Jul 2017Parklands New Line Bacup Lancashire OL13 9RX
Received 27 Jul 2017Land At Hurst Platt Waingate Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 27 Jul 2017Vm Rawtenstall T1500 Foundry Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6HQ
Received 27 Jul 2017105 Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 7SU
Received 28 Jul 201739 Heald Lane Weir Bacup Lancashire OL13 8QU
Received 28 Jul 2017211-213 Haslingden Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6RE
Received 28 Jul 20173 Green Hill Rockliffe Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9NY
Received 28 Jul 2017East/West Bank Of River Irwell Adjacent To Riley Street Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8PG
Received 19 Jul 2017Land West Of The Bowling Green Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8QU
Received 31 Jul 201799 Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7SU
Received 31 Jul 2017Rawtenstall Town Square Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 31 Jul 2017Kenyon Clough House Kenyon Clough Helmshore Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4AG
Received 1 Aug 2017Land Off New Hall Hey New Hall Hey Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 3 Aug 2017Waterfoot County Primary School Thornfield Avenue Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9AP
Received 3 Aug 2017Old Market Hall Bank Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 8HD
Received 4 Aug 2017Equestrian Yard On Gib Hill Lane, Loveclough, Rossendale, Lancashire
Received 4 Aug 2017Horse And Jockey Hotel 85 Market Street Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0JQ
Received 8 Aug 201735 Haworth Avenue Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8SS
Received 10 Aug 20177 Cottesmore Close Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8ER
Received 11 Aug 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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