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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.
6,999 approved · 1,473 refused · 396 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
25 Heys Street Haslingden Rossendale BB4 5DU
Received 26 Apr 2019Spring Hill Barn Dean Lane Water Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9RB
Received 25 Apr 2019Kilnfield Farm Park Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4AR
Received 29 Apr 20197 Hall Park Acre Rossendale BB4 5BQ
Received 29 Apr 2019Fearns Hall Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0TH
Received 29 Apr 2019Far Bank End Farm Brex Coal Pit Lane Whitewell Bottom Rossendale Lancashire OL13 8NW
Received 24 Apr 2019695-699 Bacup Road Waterfoot Rossendale BB4 7HB
Received 30 Apr 2019420 Holcombe Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4LX
Received 30 Apr 20195 Chapel Terrace Meadow Park Ramsbottom Bury BL0 0QW
Received 30 Apr 2019Reeds Holme Works Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8LN
Received 2 May 20197 Charles Lane Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5EQ
Received 30 Apr 2019Former Kar Kare Back Lane Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7QZ
Received 30 Apr 20196-8 St James Square Bacup Lancashire
Received 2 May 20191 Niton Close Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6SX
Received 3 May 2019410 Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7SN
Received 3 May 20192 Park Road Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9BW
Received 26 Apr 201915 St James Square Bacup Lancashire OL13 9NH
Received 6 May 2019Brow Edge Ending Rake Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 0TT
Received 7 May 20194 Chapel Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8PP
Received 8 May 2019294 Blackburn Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5JF
Received 8 May 201928 Hillside Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5NN
Received 9 May 201926 Roundhill View Rising Bridge Accrington Lancashire BB5 2SS
Received 9 May 20193 St James Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 9NJ
Received 8 May 2019Pinner Cottage Pinner Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8UE
Received 10 May 2019Records 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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