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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.
6,882 approved · 1,419 refused · 393 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Apr 1975 to 7 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Tor End Farm Tor End Road Helmshore Rossendale BB4 4AW
Received 13 Nov 20183 Acre Close Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0JY
Received 14 Nov 2018Woolpack Hotel 488-490 Manchester Road Haslingden Rossendale BB4 6LN
Received 14 Nov 2018Land At Farm Hill Farm Edgeside Lane Edgeside Rossendale Lancashire
Received 14 Nov 2018Lee Farm Barn Stubbylee Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 0DD
Received 15 Nov 2018Radway Cottage Bonfire Hill Road Crawshawbooth Rossendale BB4 8TJ
Received 16 Nov 20182 Oakmount Haslingden Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6SH
Received 14 Nov 2018Land On The South Side Of Commercial Street Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire
Received 19 Nov 2018Peel Street Garage Peel Street Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7TE
Received 19 Nov 201843 Moorlands View Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0HZ
Received 19 Nov 2018The Pumphouse/Orangerie Crawshaw Hall Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 19 Nov 2018The Pumphouse/Orangerie Crawshaw Hall Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 19 Nov 2018Hollin Lane Farm Hollin Lane Constable Lee Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8TE
Received 19 Nov 2018Land To The South Of Flaxmoss House Helmshore Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4JD
Received 20 Nov 2018Hill End Farm Park Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4AR
Received 20 Nov 20183 Doals Farm Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8QR
Received 20 Nov 2018Newchurch Methodist Church Turnpike Newchurch Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9DU
Received 16 Nov 201816 Swinnel Brook Park Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4FN
Received 20 Nov 20182 Park Road Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9BW
Received 20 Nov 2018The Weavers Cottage Fallbarn Fold Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7NT
Received 26 Nov 2018The Weavers Cottage Fallbarn Fold Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7NT
Received 26 Nov 201816 Causeway Head Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4DW
Received 26 Nov 2018Land Off Aitken Street Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire
Received 26 Nov 2018Greenfold Barn Bottomley Bank Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8TL
Received 26 Nov 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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