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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.
6,432 approved · 1,284 refused · 383 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
New Troughgate Farm Tong Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 9SW
Received 15 Nov 2017Horse And Jockey Hotel 85 Market Street Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0JQ
Received 15 Nov 201730 Waingate Close Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 7SQ
Received 17 Nov 2017276 Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 7LG
Received 17 Nov 20173 Eden Avenue Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0LG
Received 20 Nov 201727 Lobden Crescent Whitworth Rossendale OL12 8PU
Received 20 Nov 2017Holmefield Service Station Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8EW
Received 21 Nov 20175 Bowling Green Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0DY
Received 21 Nov 201720 Beech Close Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8AR
Received 22 Nov 2017187 Rochdale Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0RG
Received 22 Nov 20175 Esk Avenue Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0JA
Received 23 Nov 2017Former Kearns Mill Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire
Received 24 Nov 20171 Lumb Cottages Meadow Park Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0QS
Received 27 Nov 2017Former Health Centre Yorkshire Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 9AE
Received 28 Nov 201712 Campion Drive Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4JD
Received 29 Nov 2017The Hollies 2 Rising Bridge Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5BL
Received 1 Dec 2017Asda Stores Ltd Holly Mount Way Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8EL
Received 1 Dec 2017St Georges Cottage Boarsgreave Lane Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7AD
Received 1 Dec 20171220 Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RG
Received 1 Dec 2017Horse And Jockey Hotel 85 Market Street Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0JQ
Received 4 Dec 2017Boars Head 69 Church Street Newchurch Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9EH
Received 5 Dec 20172 The Meadows Whitworth Rossendale OL12 8AX
Received 5 Dec 20174 Bowker Street Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0QQ
Received 5 Dec 2017Garage Site Rear Of 175 Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 5 Dec 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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