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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.
7,111 approved · 1,528 refused · 408 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Unit 1 Knowsley Road Industrial Estate Knowsley Park Way Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4RS
Received 4 Feb 2020Lark Mount Farm Croston Close Road Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL9 6TD
Received 5 Feb 202027 Private Lane Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6LX
Received 5 Feb 2020Folly Terrace Goodshaw Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire
Received 5 Feb 202011 King Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 0AH
Received 5 Feb 20201 Loveclough View Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8QJ
Received 6 Feb 2020Land At Former Spring Mill Eastgate Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire
Received 7 Feb 20201 Woodside Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6QQ
Received 10 Feb 2020198 Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8HH
Received 10 Feb 2020Unit 5 Futures Park Bacup Lancashire OL13 0DX
Received 11 Feb 202019 St James Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 9NJ
Received 11 Feb 202019 St James Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 9NJ
Received 11 Feb 2020106 Booth Road Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9BP
Received 11 Feb 2020Land Opposite 26A Grane Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5EB
Received 11 Feb 2020104 Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0TA
Received 11 Feb 2020Old Hall Farm Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RR
Received 11 Feb 202026 Kingston Crescent Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4LH
Received 11 Feb 202062 Hillside Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5NN
Received 12 Feb 20201 Hardman Close Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7DL
Received 12 Feb 2020Land Opposite 26A Grane Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5EB
Received 12 Feb 202020 Dobbin Close Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7TH
Received 12 Feb 2020Land Behind Loveclough Social Club Commercial Street Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire
Received 13 Feb 202022A Highfield Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0LF
Received 13 Feb 202058 Rydal Road Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4EF
Received 14 Feb 2020Records 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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