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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.
6,364 approved · 1,274 refused · 383 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Grove Mill And Albion Mill Todmorden Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9EF
Received 14 Aug 201791 Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 7QN
Received 14 Aug 2017Hollin Farm Cottage Fish Rake Lane Edenfield Bury Lancashire BB4 7AH
Received 5 Apr 2017Land Off Lee Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire
Received 15 Aug 201732 Greensnook Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 9DQ
Received 16 Aug 2017Croft End Works Bolton Road North Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0NA
Received 16 Aug 201719 Hargreaves Drive Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8SP
Received 17 Aug 20171-29 Riddiough Court Hall Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8TL
Received 18 Aug 20171-29 Riddiough Court Hall Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8TL
Received 18 Aug 20171-29 Riddiough Court Hall Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8TL
Received 18 Aug 20171-29 Riddiough Court Hall Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8TL
Received 18 Aug 2017Weir Hotel Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8QE
Received 21 Aug 201710 Causeway Head Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4DW
Received 21 Aug 2017Post Office 14 Deardengate Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5QJ
Received 21 Aug 2017Post Office 14 Deardengate Haslingden Rossendale BB4 5QJ
Received 21 Aug 2017Cloughfold County Primary School Peel Street Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7LJ
Received 21 Aug 2017Honey Hole Farm Tunstead Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 8NQ
Received 21 Aug 201710 Manchester Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5ST
Received 22 Aug 2017F T Sutton And Son Ltd Stansfield Road Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7LR
Received 22 Aug 2017Land North Of 112 Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire
Received 23 Aug 201728 Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8TS
Received 23 Aug 2017Shadlock House Pinch Clough Road Whitewell Bottom Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9RT
Received 23 Aug 20173 Hameldon Road Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RL
Received 24 Aug 201715 Chapel Street Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8BS
Received 24 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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