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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.
7,255 approved · 1,589 refused · 432 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7 Change Close Bacup Lancashire OL13 9HX
Received 16 Nov 20221 Spring Mount Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 8JA
Received 17 Nov 2022Land Adjacent 136 Cherry Crescent Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 18 Nov 2022199 New Line Bacup Lancashire OL13 9RY
Received 18 Nov 2022Premier House 175 Grane Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5ER
Received 21 Nov 2022Horncliffe Mansion Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6JS
Received 21 Nov 20228 Grasmere Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4EB
Received 22 Nov 2022Horncliffe Mansion Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6JS
Received 23 Nov 2022Hawthorne House Rochdale Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0JX
Received 23 Nov 2022206 Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0TS
Received 23 Nov 20221 Helmshore Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 23 Nov 202224 Kay Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7LS
Received 24 Nov 20222 Church Court Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0QD
Received 24 Nov 202234 Kingston Crescent Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4LH
Received 25 Nov 2022Flat 5 22A Yorkshire Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 9AE
Received 25 Nov 20226 Tonacliffe Road Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8SS
Received 28 Nov 2022Land Off Todmorden Old Road Bacup Lancashire
Received 28 Nov 202222 Elizabeth Drive Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4JB
Received 28 Nov 2022Cribden End Farm Cribden Lane Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 8UD
Received 29 Nov 202232 Ramsey Avenue Bacup Lancashire OL13 9PG
Received 29 Nov 2022Moss Meadow Farm Stubbylee Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 0DD
Received 29 Nov 2022Moss Meadow Farm Stubbylee Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 0DD
Received 29 Nov 2022872 Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9PQ
Received 30 Nov 2022146 Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RS
Received 30 Nov 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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