Understanding planning · 13 min read
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.
7,182 approved · 1,560 refused · 414 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
1 Barnes Avenue Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8ST
Received 13 Nov 2020Lench Fold Farm Lench Fold Clough Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7AF
Received 16 Nov 2020Rising Bridge Service Station Blackburn Road Rising Bridge Accrington Lancashire BB5 2SB
Received 16 Nov 20207 Siskin Avenue Bacup Lancashire OL13 9BH
Received 16 Nov 20204 Maple Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5NQ
Received 16 Nov 202034 Moorlands View Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0HZ
Received 16 Nov 20203 Greens Lane Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4EX
Received 17 Nov 20202 Abbotts Close Constable Lee Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8JX
Received 17 Nov 20203 The Greens Todmorden Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9HJ
Received 17 Nov 20201 Holmes Street Water Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9PT
Received 17 Nov 2020Land To The Rear Of Captain Street Weir Bacup Lancashire
Received 17 Nov 2020Clough End Works Clough End Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5AN
Received 18 Nov 202029 Doals Gate Weir Bacup Lancashire OL13 8JN
Received 18 Nov 202051 Blackburn Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0JD
Received 19 Nov 2020Rossendale United Supporters Club Dark Lane Newchurch Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7UA
Received 20 Nov 202075-77 Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0BX
Received 20 Nov 2020114 Rochdale Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9NS
Received 23 Nov 20209 Meadow Park Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0QB
Received 23 Nov 2020232 Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8QR
Received 23 Nov 2020Land Between 184 And 188 Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0TH
Received 23 Nov 202022 Fields Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6QA
Received 23 Nov 20202 The Courtyard Bacup Lancashire OL13 9HJ
Received 23 Nov 2020Greenhill Garage Rochdale Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9NS
Received 25 Nov 202021 Hargreaves Drive Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8SP
Received 25 Nov 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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage