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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.
7,145 approved · 1,541 refused · 408 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land At Irwell Springs Greenwood Drive Weir Bacup Lancashire OL13 8RY
Received 5 May 2020178 Market Street Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0JF
Received 5 May 2020Queens Arms 1 Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6QS
Received 5 May 2020Land South Of Holme Cottages Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire
Received 6 May 2020Queens Arms 1 Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6QS
Received 6 May 2020Foresters Arms 12 Pleasant Street Haslingden Rossendale BB4 5LG
Received 6 May 20204 Oakenshaw View Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8SP
Received 6 May 2020Fish Rake Farm Fish Rake Lane Edenfield Bury Lancashire BB4 7AH
Received 7 May 2020Superpeas Nursery 4 Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7ND
Received 6 May 2020Former Anacapri Restaurant Helmshore Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4LU
Received 8 May 20201 Rosewood Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5NG
Received 8 May 20204 Middlegate Green Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8PY
Received 8 May 2020Height End Cottage Height End Farm Bacup Old Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8PT
Received 11 May 2020Rake Farm Whitworth Rake Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8XJ
Received 12 May 2020Land At Clough End Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5AP
Received 12 May 2020Land At Clough End Road Haslingden BB4 5AP
Received 12 May 2020Land At Green Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 12 May 2020Cribden View Rising Bridge Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5BL
Received 13 May 2020121 Goodshaw Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8DJ
Received 13 May 2020389 Market Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8QL
Received 18 May 2020Mcdonalds Blackburn Road Rising Bridge Accrington Lancashire BB5 2SB
Received 18 May 2020388 Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6EH
Received 18 May 20201 Rock View Market Street Shawforth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8JD
Received 15 May 202011A King Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 0AH
Received 21 May 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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