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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.
6,448 approved · 1,285 refused · 385 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land South Of Maden Road Bacup Lancashire
Received 19 Dec 2017Land North Of Park View Cottages Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire
Received 20 Dec 20174A North Street Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0PB
Received 21 Dec 2017Bacup And Rawtenstall Grammar School Glen Road Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7BJ
Received 21 Dec 2017Bacup Hub (Formerly Bacup Leisure Hall) Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8AG
Received 22 Dec 2017Grove Mill And Albion Mill Todmorden Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9EF
Received 22 Dec 2017The Fishermans Retreat Riding Head Lane Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0HH
Received 22 Dec 2017The Fishermans Retreat Riding Head Lane Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0HH
Received 22 Dec 201723 Lower Cribden Avenue Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6SW
Received 22 Dec 2017St Marys Rc Primary School Tong Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 9LJ
Received 25 Dec 2017Weir Hotel Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8QE
Received 25 Dec 201715 Rose Vale Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7PF
Received 28 Dec 2017195 Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8HY
Received 3 Jan 201833-35 Kay Street Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 7LS
Received 2 Jan 20181154 Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9QR
Received 5 Jan 2018Golf Rossendale Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7SW
Received 8 Jan 201822 Haworth Avenue Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 8SS
Received 8 Jan 2018Stubbins Mill Stubbins Lane Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0NH
Received 8 Jan 2018259 Bolton Road North Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0SA
Received 8 Jan 2018Suite 9 Link 665 Todd Hall Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5JT
Received 9 Jan 2018Lower Fairbanks Farm Goodshawfold Road Loveclough BB4 8UF
Received 2 Jan 2018228 Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 7QX
Received 9 Jan 201880 Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8EG
Received 10 Jan 201848 - 50 Deardengate Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 10 Jan 2018Records 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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