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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.
7,081 approved · 1,506 refused · 402 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Field East Of 20 Holme Vale Helmshore Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4AF
Received 11 Sept 201931 Hall Park Acre Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5BQ
Received 13 Sept 20191 Windsor Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4RB
Received 13 Sept 2019Land To The Rear Of 59 Market Street Edenfield Bury Lancashire
Received 13 Sept 2019256 Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7SN
Received 13 Sept 201928 Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6AA
Received 13 Sept 2019369 Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 8RR
Received 13 Sept 20191 Fern Street Waterfoot Rossendale BB4 9BL
Received 18 Sept 2019War Memorial Rawtenstall Cemetery Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 18 Sept 20197 Hardsough Fold Meadow Park Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0QN
Received 19 Sept 2019Land To The Side And Rear Of 2 Commercial Street Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire
Received 19 Sept 2019210 Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0TS
Received 23 Sept 2019Irwell Vale Mill Aitken Street Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0QG
Received 24 Sept 201938 - 42 Market Street Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0JN
Received 24 Sept 201963A Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7QN
Received 24 Sept 20196 New Line Bacup Lancashire OL13 0BY
Received 24 Sept 2019Land Adjacent 136 Cherry Crescent Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 25 Sept 2019Yonne Cottage Higher Lane Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5UD
Received 25 Sept 201921-23 Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9AG
Received 25 Sept 2019105 Bolton Road North Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0LY
Received 25 Sept 2019Community Centre Hill Street Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8NS
Received 25 Sept 201910 Ormerod Street Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 8EB
Received 26 Sept 2019Reeds House Farm Reeds Lane Reeds Holme Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8TG
Received 26 Sept 2019Land Adjacent To The Hollies Alden Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4AQ
Received 27 Sept 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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