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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.
7,012 approved · 1,482 refused · 398 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Caravan The Garden Centre Grange Road Facit Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8LF
Received 23 May 2019Clough Bottom Farm Moor Lane Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5TX
Received 24 May 2019The Lindens Deardengate Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5PU
Received 24 May 20191 Rosewood Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5NG
Received 24 May 201983 Mercer Crescent Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4RG
Received 24 May 201911 St James Square Bacup Lancashire OL13 9NH
Received 24 May 2019Lee Farm Stubbylee Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 0DD
Received 24 May 2019Land Off New Hall Hey New Hall Hey Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 30 May 20197 Carr Bank Boarsgreave Lane Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7EF
Received 31 May 201915 Dobbin Close Cloughfold Rossendale BB4 7TH
Received 31 May 2019Land To The West Of Lomas Lane Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6HU
Received 31 May 2019The Lodge Rockcliffe Villas Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 8JG
Received 4 Jun 2019The Lodge Rockcliffe Villas Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 8JG
Received 4 Jun 201912 The Stables Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8BL
Received 5 Jun 201980 Douglas Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9PR
Received 7 Jun 201939 Greave Close Constable Lee Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8JT
Received 7 Jun 2019210 Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0TS
Received 10 Jun 20196 Healey Hall Mews Shawclough Road Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 7HB
Received 10 Jun 201931 Highfield Park Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4BH
Received 10 Jun 201910 Ormerod Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8EB
Received 11 Jun 2019Land Opposite 26A Grane Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5EB
Received 11 Jun 2019369 Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RR
Received 11 Jun 2019Farm Hill Farm Edgeside Lane Edgeside Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8TZ
Received 11 Jun 2019Former Kearns Mill Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire
Received 12 Jun 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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