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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.
7,173 approved · 1,558 refused · 412 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7 Brynbella Drive Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6SN
Received 23 Sept 2020Land Between 184 And 188 Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0TH
Received 23 Sept 2020Bankside Cottage Bankside Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 8HG
Received 24 Sept 20209 Redwood Drive Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6DR
Received 24 Sept 20204 Loveclough Park Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8QA
Received 24 Sept 202012 Manchester Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5ST
Received 24 Sept 2020Goodshawfold Farm Goodshawfold Road Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8QS
Received 28 Sept 2020Goodshawfold Farm Goodshawfold Road Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8QS
Received 28 Sept 202030 Hollingreave Drive Reeds Holme Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8EP
Received 28 Sept 2020Manse 2A Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7ND
Received 28 Sept 2020Land Off Rockliffe Road Bacup Lancashire
Received 28 Sept 2020Land On The South Side Of Commercial Street Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire
Received 29 Sept 20209 & 10 East View Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0NW
Received 30 Sept 2020Acre Nook Farm Rochdale Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0RN
Received 1 Oct 202014 Conway Close Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6TQ
Received 30 Sept 2020Former Duke Of Wellington Grane Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 2 Oct 2020Land Off Meadows Avenue Bacup Lancashire
Received 2 Oct 2020St John The Evangelist Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8AB
Received 2 Oct 2020St John The Evangelist Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8AB
Received 2 Oct 202041 Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0SF
Received 5 Oct 2020Parrock Mill Barn Todmorden Road Bacup Lancashire
Received 5 Oct 2020Land Adj The Vicarage Goodshawfold Road Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire
Received 6 Oct 20203 Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6QS
Received 6 Oct 2020The Store At Blackwood Mill Blackwood Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0PS
Received 7 Oct 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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