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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.
7,185 approved · 1,561 refused · 414 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
32 Dobbin Close Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7TH
Received 5 Jan 20213 Osborne Terrace Whitewell Bottom Rossendale BB4 9NS
Received 5 Jan 20216 Musbury Mews Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4QF
Received 5 Jan 20211 Lee Brook Close Constable Lee Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8ET
Received 4 Jan 20217 Downham Avenue Constable Lee Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8JY
Received 6 Jan 2021Land To The North Of Johnny Barn Close Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire
Received 6 Jan 2021Reeds Holme Works Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8LN
Received 8 Jan 2021Forest House 12 College Lane Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7LA
Received 8 Jan 2021541 Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9HH
Received 8 Jan 202124 Plantation Street Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0QX
Received 8 Jan 2021Side Of 667 Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9PG
Received 8 Jan 202111 Fernhill Crescent Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 8JU
Received 11 Jan 2021134 Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6DJ
Received 11 Jan 2021The Warren Peel Street Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7LJ
Received 11 Jan 2021256 Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0UE
Received 11 Jan 20211 Alden Close Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4AX
Received 12 Jan 202112 Cotton Way Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4QS
Received 13 Jan 20211 Oakenhead Green Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8US
Received 13 Jan 2021Land At The End Of Meadow Edge Close Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire
Received 14 Jan 202133 Ronaldsway Close Bacup Lancashire OL13 9PY
Received 14 Jan 20214 Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 13 Jan 2021Land Adjacent Canberra Building Commerce Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 15 Jan 2021Tor Side Lodge Sunny Bank Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4AJ
Received 15 Jan 2021Hollin Lane Farm Hollin Lane Constable Lee Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8TE
Received 14 Jan 2021Records 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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