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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7,185 approved · 1,562 refused · 414 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Far Pastures Farm Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9NH
Received 3 Feb 2021Land To Rear Of 331 - 345 Grane Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 3 Feb 2021Plot 1 Futures Park Bacup Lancashire
Received 3 Feb 2021164 Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7PA
Received 4 Feb 2021Unit 14 Bentwood Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5HH
Received 29 Jan 2021Land On The South Side Of Commercial Street Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire
Received 5 Feb 2021Spodden Mill Station Road Facit Rochdale Lancashire
Received 8 Feb 2021Golf Rossendale Driving Range Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7SN
Received 8 Feb 2021Unit 2 Laburnum Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5DW
Received 8 Feb 2021130 Haslingden Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6RE
Received 9 Feb 2021118 Chatterton Road Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0PQ
Received 10 Feb 202141 Private Lane Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6LX
Received 10 Feb 2021Land South Of Hugh Business Park Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7EU
Received 9 Feb 20211 Beaumaris Close Haslingden Rossendale BB4 6TJ
Received 11 Feb 202111 Knowl Meadow Helmshore Rossendale BB4 4LW
Received 11 Feb 2021127 Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RR
Received 12 Feb 202119 Hargreaves Drive Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8SP
Received 12 Feb 2021Far Bank Top Farm Bank Top Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9NF
Received 12 Feb 20213 - 5 Yate Cottages Lumb Lane Whitewell Bottom Rossendale BB4 9RW
Received 12 Feb 2021Cemetery Lodge Edward Street Facit Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8LE
Received 15 Feb 202117 Laund Hey View Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4BB
Received 15 Feb 20212 Meadow Park Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0QB
Received 15 Feb 202168 Bolton Road North Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0LT
Received 15 Feb 2021285 Edgeside Lane Edgeside Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9UD
Received 15 Feb 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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