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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.
7,130 approved · 1,536 refused · 408 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Goodshaw Baptist Church Chapel Street Crawshawbooth Rossendale BB4 8BS
Received 27 Mar 2020Finboro Helmshore Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4AE
Received 27 Mar 20201 Tor View Tor View Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6PN
Received 30 Mar 2020Oakenhead Resource Centre Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RR
Received 30 Mar 202020 Olive Terrace Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8JZ
Received 30 Mar 20202 Elizabeth Drive Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4JB
Received 31 Mar 202012 Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9AF
Received 1 Apr 2020Land Adj Goodshaw Vicarage Goodshawfold Road Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire
Received 2 Apr 2020227 Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6DJ
Received 2 Apr 2020Barn Adjoining Tippett Farm Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7AE
Received 2 Apr 2020Spodden Valley Market Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire
Received 3 Apr 2020Former Car Park Park Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire
Received 3 Apr 2020Land At Former Weir Hotel Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8QE
Received 7 Apr 202011 Hardman Close Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7DL
Received 8 Apr 2020Higher Whams Farm Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale
Received 9 Apr 2020Clough Head Barn Dean Lane Water Rossendale Lancashire OL13 8RG
Received 30 Mar 2020334 Helmshore Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4JA
Received 15 Apr 2020Melba Swintex Ltd Stubbins Vale Mill Stubbins Vale Road Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0NT
Received 15 Apr 20206 Hall Close Reeds Holme Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8PS
Received 15 Apr 2020Woodland View Back Lane Rising Bridge Accrington Lancashire BB5 2DZ
Received 15 Apr 202025 Sunnybank Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5DQ
Received 15 Apr 20202 Oakley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6RB
Received 16 Apr 2020Land Off Landgate Shawforth Rochdale Lancashire
Received 17 Apr 202095 Tonacliffe Road Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8SJ
Received 17 Apr 2020Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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