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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.
7,008 approved · 1,477 refused · 397 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
22 Hollinwood Drive Reeds Holme Rossendale BB4 8DE
Received 10 May 2019Newchurch Methodist Church Turnpike Newchurch Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9DU
Received 10 May 2019Heath Hill Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0SF
Received 13 May 2019Croft End Works Bolton Road North Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0NA
Received 13 May 201927 Ronaldsway Close Bacup Lancashire OL13 9PY
Received 13 May 20191263 Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RG
Received 13 May 201918 Penny Lodge Lane Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8PD
Received 13 May 201959-61 Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7QN
Received 13 May 2019248A Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0UE
Received 14 May 201937 Park Wood Drive Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6RP
Received 14 May 2019The Hollies Alden Road Helmshore Rossendale BB4 4AQ
Received 15 May 2019The Old Barn Hurst Lane Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7RE
Received 16 May 2019628 Blackburn Road Rising Bridge Accrington Rossendale BB5 2SB
Received 17 May 2019118 Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 8SA
Received 17 May 2019Ravenswood Tonacliffe Road Whitworth Rochdale Rossendale OL12 8SJ
Received 17 May 20191 The Holme Holme Lane Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6JQ
Received 20 May 2019Hud Hey Stable Land To The West Of Tap Stone House Hud Hey Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5JL
Received 20 May 20198 Callow Close Bacup Lancashire OL13 9SJ
Received 20 May 2019Land Off Fieldfare Way Bacup Lancashire
Received 21 May 2019Lowes Farm Scout Road Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0RQ
Received 21 May 20192 Clayton Avenue Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6EW
Received 21 May 2019Tunstead House Higher Tunstead Tunstead Lane Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 8NB
Received 21 May 2019695-699 Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7HB
Received 22 May 2019Lower Spring Farm Back Lane Rising Bridge Accrington Lancashire BB5 2SF
Received 23 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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