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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7,185 approved · 1,563 refused · 414 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Old Shippon Gincroft Lane Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0QX
Received 25 Feb 2021Peel Edge Dobbin Lane Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7TE
Received 25 Feb 202111 Fernhill Crescent Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 8JU
Received 25 Feb 20214 Maple Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5NQ
Received 25 Feb 2021170 Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0TH
Received 25 Feb 2021Hazelwood 41 Bury Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6PG
Received 26 Feb 2021Reaps Moss Wind Farm Substation Compound Reaps Moss Wind Farm Bacup Lancashire OL13 9UQ
Received 2 Mar 2021Cribden Flatts Farm Cribden End Lane Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8UB
Received 2 Mar 2021Land On The South Side Of Commercial Street Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire
Received 3 Mar 2021Hurstdale House Hurst Lane Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 3 Mar 2021Land On The South Side Of Commercial Street Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire
Received 4 Mar 202141 Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0SF
Received 4 Mar 20213 Lower Mill Cottages Blackburn Road Rising Bridge Accrington Lancashire BB5 2SQ
Received 4 Mar 2021Higher Barn Farm Roundhill Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5TU
Received 4 Mar 2021Windyridge Helmshore Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4AE
Received 4 Mar 202121 Curven Edge Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4LP
Received 8 Mar 2021Tenements Farm Holcombe Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4AS
Received 8 Mar 20217 Carr Bank Boarsgreave Lane Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7EF
Received 9 Mar 20214 Marl Pits Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7SW
Received 9 Mar 202113 Lime Tree Grove Constable Lee Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8JB
Received 9 Mar 202111 Meadowcroft Close Reeds Holme Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8DF
Received 9 Mar 20211 Gorse Grove Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4JE
Received 10 Mar 2021Lumb Old Hall Meadow Park Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0QR
Received 10 Mar 2021Crabtree Hurst Lench Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7JH
Received 11 Mar 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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