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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.
6,393 approved · 1,280 refused · 383 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Apr 1975 to 7 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
14 Victoria Parade Waterfoot Rossendale BB4 9AB
Received 25 Sept 2017Horse And Jockey Hotel 85 Market Street Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0JQ
Received 26 Sept 20177 Fairview Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 8LD
Received 25 Sept 201759 Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7DQ
Received 27 Sept 2017Land Adjacent To 68 And 70 Tong Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 9LH
Received 27 Sept 2017Land Off New Hall Hey New Hall Hey Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 27 Sept 201770 Crawshaw Grange Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8LY
Received 27 Sept 2017Greensnook Cottages Greensnook Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 9DQ
Received 28 Sept 2017Former St Saviours Church New Line Bacup Lancashire OL13 0BY
Received 27 Sept 2017Higher Lench House Lench Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7AF
Received 2 Oct 2017Higher Lench House Lench Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 7AF
Received 2 Oct 201718 Ratcliffe Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5DE
Received 2 Oct 201727 Cotton Way Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4QS
Received 2 Oct 20171137 Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale BB4 9QR
Received 3 Oct 20171137 Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale BB4 9QR
Received 3 Oct 2017Apartment 1 Aldenbrook Sunny Bank Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4FE
Received 29 Sept 2017Land To The Rear Of 19 Sunnybank Cottages Sunny Bank Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4AH
Received 2 Oct 201749-51 Bury Old Road Shuttleworth Ramsbottom Bury BL0 0RY
Received 3 Oct 201718 Stone Fold Village Kings Highway Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB5 2DP
Received 4 Oct 2017Birtle Edge House Castle Hill Road Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL9 6UW
Received 4 Oct 2017Broadclough Cottage Meadows Avenue Bacup Lancashire OL13 8DG
Received 5 Oct 2017184 Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0TH
Received 5 Oct 2017Trubend Rockliffe Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9QG
Received 5 Oct 2017Land Rear Of 166 Blackburn Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 6 Oct 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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