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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.
7,225 approved · 1,579 refused · 428 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Lee Brook Close Constable Lee Rossendale BB4 8ET
Received 12 Jan 2022Land At Wesley Place Wesley Place Bacup Lancashire OL13 8JE
Received 13 Jan 2022Hazel Mount House Hazel Street Rising Bridge Accrington Lancashire BB5 2SG
Received 14 Jan 2022767 Market Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8LS
Received 17 Jan 2022Land On The East Side Of Union Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 14 Jan 2022Land South Of Victoria Street Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7PT
Received 18 Jan 2022Blaithwaite Ashworth Road Edgeside Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9JE
Received 18 Jan 2022Land Off Holly Mount Holly Mount Way Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8FW
Received 18 Jan 202237A Market Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 0AJ
Received 19 Jan 202237A Market Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 0AJ
Received 19 Jan 202267 Staghills Road Newchurch Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7TX
Received 19 Jan 202212 Rydal Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4EE
Received 19 Jan 202215 Victoria Court Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4EQ
Received 19 Jan 20221-1A Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7NG
Received 20 Jan 20221-1A Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7NG
Received 20 Jan 2022Land Opposite 3 Rook Hill Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0SP
Received 19 Jan 2022Lower Fold Head Farm Hall Fold Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8XL
Received 21 Jan 2022Former Rossendale United Football Club Dark Lane Newchurch Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7AU
Received 21 Jan 202211 Crawshaw Drive Reeds Holme Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8PR
Received 24 Jan 20221 Store Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5TH
Received 24 Jan 202222 Cottonmill Court Bacup Lancashire OL13 9AY
Received 24 Jan 20225 Chapel Terrace Irwell Vale Ramsbottom Bury BL0 0QW
Received 24 Jan 2022Union Street North End Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire
Received 24 Jan 20226 Milner Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8RQ
Received 25 Jan 2022Records 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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