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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.
7,247 approved · 1,585 refused · 432 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
11 Market Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 8EY
Received 30 Mar 20224 Hardsough Fold Meadow Park Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0QN
Received 30 Mar 202255 - 57 Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 7QN
Received 30 Mar 20227 Height End Cottages Kirk Hill Road Haslingden Rossendale BB4 8TZ
Received 30 Mar 202263 Eastgate Whitworth Rossendale OL12 8UG
Received 31 Mar 2022Proposed Garage Site Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire
Received 31 Mar 202218 Whitecroft Avenue Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4BU
Received 31 Mar 2022Aldenbrook Sunny Bank Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4FE
Received 31 Mar 2022Whitworth House Whitworth Square Whitworth Rossendale OL12 8PY
Received 1 Apr 2022Land On The South Side Of Commercial Street Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire
Received 22 Mar 2022Land Opposite Brunswick Terrace Stacksteads Bacup
Received 4 Apr 2022Far Pastures Farm Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale BB4 9NH
Received 4 Apr 202211A Sandown Road Haslingden Rossendale BB4 6PL
Received 4 Apr 202217 Union Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 0AA
Received 4 Apr 2022Fold Head Farm Hall Fold Whitworth Rossendale OL12 8XL
Received 4 Apr 2022Land South Of Holme Cottages Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale
Received 5 Apr 2022Hawthorne House Rochdale Road Edenfield Bury BL0 0JX
Received 5 Apr 202222 Hargreaves Drive Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 8SP
Received 5 Apr 2022Heath Hill Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0SF
Received 5 Apr 20227 Ashen Bottom Crow Wood Road Edenfield Bury BB4 6JY
Received 6 Apr 20221 Church Court Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0QD
Received 6 Apr 202214 Knowl Gap Avenue Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4DA
Received 7 Apr 202261 Eastgate Whitworth Rossendale OL12 8UG
Received 7 Apr 20221 Laund Hey View Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4BB
Received 7 Apr 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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