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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.
7,190 approved · 1,564 refused · 415 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Pleasant View Cottage Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8RD
Received 12 Apr 2021335 Grane Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4PB
Received 12 Apr 20211 Barnes Avenue Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8ST
Received 12 Apr 202110 Ainsdale Drive Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8QB
Received 12 Apr 20214 Anderton Close Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7DW
Received 12 Apr 20216 Vale Mill Court Burnley Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0GY
Received 12 Apr 202145 Warwick Street Haslingden Rossendale BB4 5LR
Received 13 Apr 2021164 Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7PA
Received 13 Apr 202124 Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 7QX
Received 13 Apr 202113 Wheatholme Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7PG
Received 14 Apr 2021Clough End Works Clough End Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5AN
Received 16 Mar 2021122 Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire
Received 14 Apr 202115 Lee Brook Close Constable Lee Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8ET
Received 9 Apr 202112 Kingston Crescent Helmshore Rossendale BB4 4LH
Received 15 Apr 2021Indian Harvest Restaurant 612 Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8AJ
Received 15 Apr 2021Height End Cottage Height End Farm Bacup Old Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8PT
Received 15 Apr 2021Sheephouse Fold Greens Lane Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0JS
Received 16 Apr 2021Land At Bury Road/Lomas Lane Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 16 Apr 2021256 Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0UE
Received 16 Apr 2021Cemetery Lodge Edward Street Facit Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8LE
Received 16 Apr 2021521 Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9HH
Received 19 Apr 2021Commercial Hotel 318A Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0UJ
Received 19 Apr 20219 Ventnor Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6QP
Received 19 Apr 2021Land Adjacent 159 Manchester Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 19 Apr 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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