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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.
7,161 approved · 1,551 refused · 411 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
444 Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0LD
Received 31 Jul 2020Queens Cottage Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7NF
Received 31 Jul 2020Queens Cottage Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7NF
Received 31 Jul 202016 Unity Way Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8UL
Received 31 Jul 2020Waterbarn Farm Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0TF
Received 31 Jul 2020Cherry Tree Lodge 226-228 Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6DJ
Received 31 Jul 2020485 Market Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8QN
Received 3 Aug 202030 Peel Drive Bacup Lancashire OL13 9PU
Received 3 Aug 202039 Rosendale Crescent Bacup Lancashire OL13 9LN
Received 15 Jul 2020Sherfin Nook Kings Highway Haslingden Rossendale BB5 2DT
Received 3 Aug 202026 Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9AF
Received 4 Aug 202026 Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9AF
Received 4 Aug 2020Lower House Barn Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9PX
Received 4 Aug 2020Whitaker Park Haslingden Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6RE
Received 4 Aug 2020344 Helmshore Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4JA
Received 5 Aug 20206 Oak View Shawforth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8NS
Received 5 Aug 2020Higher Mount Pleasant Gincroft Lane Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0GQ
Received 5 Aug 202026 Tong End Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8BJ
Received 7 Aug 202026 Tong End Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8BJ
Received 7 Aug 202021 Longacres Drive Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8JT
Received 7 Aug 2020Land On The East Side Of Union Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 7 Aug 2020Aldi Henrietta Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 0AR
Received 10 Aug 2020Lumley House Greens Lane Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0JJ
Received 10 Aug 20206 Rose Vale Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7PF
Received 10 Aug 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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