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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.
7,159 approved · 1,550 refused · 411 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Apr 1975 to 7 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Rossendale Museum Whitaker Park Haslingden Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6RE
Received 17 Jul 202015 Pendle Close Bacup Lancashire OL13 9JT
Received 20 Jul 2020Unit 5 Futures Park Bacup Lancashire OL13 0DX
Received 20 Jul 2020Land Behind 222 Helmshore Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4DJ
Received 20 Jul 2020968 Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8QL
Received 21 Jul 2020Woodside Development Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 22 Jul 20201 Swinshaw Close Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RJ
Received 22 Jul 2020The Coach House East View Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0NW
Received 22 Jul 2020Woodside Development Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 22 Jul 2020Land At Holly Mount Holly Mount Way Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 23 Jul 20201 Cloughfold Barn Loveclough Fold Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8QT
Received 23 Jul 202045B Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7QN
Received 23 Jul 2020Holly Mount House Holly Mount Way Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 23 Jul 202054 Hall Carr Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6AW
Received 24 Jul 2020Height End Farm Bacup Old Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8PT
Received 27 Jul 202011 Water Lane Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0LU
Received 27 Jul 202014 Broadway Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4HB
Received 27 Jul 2020Pinner Cottage Pinner Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8UE
Received 27 Jul 202022 Sunny Bank Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4PF
Received 27 Jul 2020717 Market Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8LD
Received 28 Jul 202025 Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7QX
Received 28 Jul 2020Tanner Farm Kings Highway Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5UA
Received 28 Jul 2020Land Off Greensnook Lane Bacup Lancashire
Received 29 Jul 2020Land South Of Victoria Street Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7PT
Received 29 Jul 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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