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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.
6,897 approved · 1,424 refused · 393 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Off Back Lane Rising Bridge Accrington Lancashire
Received 23 Nov 2018352 Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9HU
Received 28 Nov 2018Higher Fairbanks Farm Goodshawfold Road Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8UF
Received 28 Nov 2018Land At Hurst Platt Waingate Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 28 Nov 2018Land At Hurst Platt Waingate Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 28 Nov 20183 Tor View Tor View Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6PN
Received 28 Nov 2018Unit 3A Swanney Lodge Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6HD
Received 28 Nov 2018Land To The Rear Of 410 - 420 Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 29 Nov 2018Willows Farm House Goodshaw Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8TN
Received 29 Nov 201818 Highfield Bacup Lancashire OL13 8HX
Received 27 Nov 20182 Bishops Court Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7FB
Received 30 Nov 201880 Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8EG
Received 3 Dec 201837 Park Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6PP
Received 3 Dec 2018Land Off Hollin Way Reeds Holme Rossendale Lancashire
Received 3 Dec 2018Sherfin Edge Farm Kings Highway Haslingden Rossendale BB5 2DX
Received 3 Dec 2018489 Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0NH
Received 3 Dec 2018Land Off Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire
Received 4 Dec 2018Home Bargains Swanney Lodge Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 4 Dec 2018Lower Park House Barn Park Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4AR
Received 4 Dec 2018Tor View School Clod Lane Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6LR
Received 5 Dec 2018253 Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8LA
Received 3 Dec 20186 Talbot Close Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6EF
Received 3 Dec 2018Ski Rossendale Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RR
Received 5 Dec 201843 Mercer Crescent Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4JJ
Received 7 Dec 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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