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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.
7,227 approved · 1,579 refused · 428 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
21 Highfield Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0LB
Received 25 Jan 20224 Melia Close Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6RQ
Received 25 Jan 2022Swinshaw Hall Goodshaw Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RB
Received 26 Jan 2022Wesley Old Hall Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8RA
Received 26 Jan 202233 Deardengate Haslingden Rossendale BB4 5QN
Received 20 Dec 2021102 Laneside Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6PG
Received 27 Jan 2022202 Broadway Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4EH
Received 28 Jan 20221 Hill Street Crawshawbooth Rossendale BB4 8NS
Received 28 Jan 20226 Piccadilly Street Haslingden Rossendale BB4 5LU
Received 28 Jan 2022390 Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6EH
Received 4 Apr 1975Land Between Princess Street And Dale Street Off Bankside Lane Bacup Lancashire
Received 28 Jan 2022Heathercombe Goodshaw Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8DJ
Received 31 Jan 2022Land Adjoining 9 Roundhill Lane Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5BJ
Received 1 Feb 2022134 Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6DJ
Received 1 Feb 20224 Law Street Newchurch Rossendale BB4 9DY
Received 2 Feb 202214 Knowl Meadow Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4LW
Received 2 Feb 20222 Causeway Head Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4DW
Received 2 Feb 202213 Esk Avenue Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0JA
Received 3 Feb 2022Valley Lodge 2-4 Forest Bank Forest Bank Road Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8NW
Received 3 Feb 202229 Hurst Lane Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7RE
Received 3 Feb 2022The Coach House Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8PA
Received 7 Feb 2022Gas Holder Station Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 7 Feb 2022Land Adjacent 228 Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire
Received 7 Feb 2022Unit 1 - 3 Rising Bridge Business And Enterprise Village Blackburn Road Rising Bridge Accrington Lancashire BB5 2AL
Received 7 Feb 2022Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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