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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7,185 approved · 1,561 refused · 414 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
13 Fernhill Crescent Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 8JU
Received 18 Jan 2021176 Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RS
Received 18 Jan 2021178 Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RS
Received 18 Jan 2021Cribden Flatts Farm Cribden End Lane Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8UB
Received 18 Jan 2021Lee Farm Stubbylee Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 0DD
Received 18 Jan 20213 Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6QS
Received 18 Jan 202127 Billington Avenue Constable Lee Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8UW
Received 19 Jan 20212 Kateholme Weir Bacup Lancashire OL13 8RJ
Received 19 Jan 20217 Hawfinch Close Bacup Lancashire OL13 9PT
Received 19 Jan 2021Goodshaw Baptist Church Chapel Street Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8BS
Received 20 Jan 202140 Ventnor Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6QP
Received 20 Jan 2021696 Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9PG
Received 20 Jan 20213 Greenfold Cottages Goodshaw Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8DP
Received 20 Jan 20213 Spring Mount Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 8JA
Received 22 Jan 2021Far Pastures Farm Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9NH
Received 22 Jan 202126 Tong End Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8BJ
Received 22 Jan 2021104 Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0TA
Received 22 Jan 2021Rams Head Hotel 2 Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7QX
Received 22 Jan 202127 Billington Avenue Constable Lee Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8UW
Received 22 Jan 20215 Chapel Terrace Meadow Park Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0QW
Received 22 Jan 2021Land On The South Side Of Commercial Street Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire
Received 25 Jan 20213 Highfield Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0LB
Received 25 Jan 2021277 Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RR
Received 25 Jan 202132 Moorlands View Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0HZ
Received 25 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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