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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.
7,252 approved · 1,589 refused · 432 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
10 Varley Close Bacup Lancashire OL13 9SH
Received 28 Jun 202218 Victoria Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5DL
Received 29 Jun 202212 Knowl Meadow Helmshore Rossendale BB4 4LW
Received 29 Jun 20224 Anderton Close Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7DW
Received 29 Jun 202218 Whitecroft Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4BU
Received 11 May 20227 Gorse Grove Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4JE
Received 30 Jun 202293 Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8PZ
Received 30 Jun 2022100 Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 8SA
Received 30 Jun 2022Edge Cote Farm Hurst Lane Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 8TD
Received 1 Jul 20227 Dalesford Haslingden Rossendale BB4 6QH
Received 1 Jul 2022Land Off Goodshaw Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale
Received 4 Jul 202256 Stubbins Street Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0NL
Received 4 Jul 2022144 Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 8RS
Received 5 Jul 2022Footway Of Fearns Moss At The Junction With Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0TJ
Received 24 Jun 2022Plunge Farm Plunge Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0RB
Received 28 Jun 202224 Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 7QX
Received 7 Jul 2022The Circle Former St John The Evangelist Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8AB
Received 7 Jul 2022238 Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale BB4 9DQ
Received 7 Jul 2022The Circle Former St John The Evangelist Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8AB
Received 7 Jul 2022721 Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9PG
Received 7 Jul 202224 Rockliffe Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 9NB
Received 8 Jul 2022Park Road Bacup Lancashire
Received 17 Jun 202221 Market Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 8EX
Received 11 Jul 20224 St Marys Terrace Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8SQ
Received 11 Jul 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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