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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.
7,251 approved · 1,589 refused · 432 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land South Of Victoria Street Cloughfold Rossendale BB4 7PT
Received 21 Apr 202221-23 Market Street Whitworth Rossendale OL12 8RW
Received 21 Apr 2022St Johns Stonefold C Of E School Rising Bridge Road Haslingden Rossendale BB5 2SW
Received 21 Apr 20226 Daneswood Fold Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8UE
Received 21 Apr 2022McCaw School Of Dance Water Lane Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0LU
Received 22 Apr 2022McCaw School Of Dance Water Lane Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0LU
Received 22 Apr 2022Ground Floor Rear Off 38 - 42 Market Street Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0JN
Received 22 Apr 20226 Derwent Close Haslingden Rossendale BB4 5RH
Received 25 Apr 2022Old Cowpe Hall Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7AE
Received 26 Apr 2022Pilling Barn Tunstead Lane Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 8NE
Received 26 Apr 20221 Conway Road Cloughfold Rossendale BB4 7ST
Received 27 Apr 2022Slip In Farm Maden Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8NL
Received 29 Apr 202239 Goodshawfold Road Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8QN
Received 29 Apr 2022Land At Former Spring Mill Whitworth Rochdale
Received 2 May 2022559 Market Street Whitworth Rossendale OL12 8QS
Received 2 May 2022505 Market Street Whitworth Rossendale OL12 8QN
Received 2 May 20222 Primrose Bank House Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0SE
Received 4 May 2022Cross Bank Bamford Road Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0RT
Received 4 May 20222 Compston Avenue Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8BZ
Received 4 May 2022Land Adjacent 44 Regent Street Haslingden Rossendale BB4 5HQ
Received 5 May 202233 Grasmere Road Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4EB
Received 5 May 20227 Rydal Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4EE
Received 5 May 20223 Gregory Fold Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4JW
Received 5 May 202236 Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7QW
Received 5 May 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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