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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.
7,429 approved · 1,625 refused · 455 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Apr 1975 to 13 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 16 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Acre View Higher Lane Haslingden Rossendale
Received 21 Mar 202328 Haworth Avenue Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 8SS
Received 21 Mar 2023Cobbus Cottage Croston Close Road Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL9 6TD
Received 21 Mar 202311 Higher Mill Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7UN
Received 21 Mar 2023294 Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7LG
Received 22 Mar 2023288 Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0UJ
Received 22 Mar 202316 Hempshaw Avenue Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RW
Received 22 Mar 2023134 Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6DJ
Received 22 Mar 2023Land West Of 1162 Burnley Road Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8QY
Received 22 Mar 2023Hardsough Farm Hardsough Lane Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0QE
Received 23 Mar 2023Hawthorne House Rochdale Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0JX
Received 23 Mar 2023164 Dean Road Helmshore Rossendale BB4 4EW
Received 23 Mar 202313 Esk Avenue Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0JA
Received 23 Mar 202389 Goodshaw Avenue North Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RH
Received 27 Mar 2023Horncliffe Mansion Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6JS
Received 27 Mar 202324 Tonacliffe Road Whitworth Rossendale OL12 8SS
Received 27 Mar 2023Stubbins Graveyard Bolton Rd North Edenfield BL0 0NA
Received 27 Mar 20238 Grane Park Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5HB
Received 27 Mar 20238 Grane Park Haslingden Rossendale BB4 5HB
Received 27 Mar 20233 Maden Close Bacup Lancashire OL13 8HW
Received 27 Mar 20233 Woodside Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6QQ
Received 27 Mar 2023Haslingden Pool East Bank Avenue Haslingden Rossendale BB4 6NX
Received 27 Mar 20233 Greenhill Dobbin Lane Cloughfold Rossendale BB4 7TD
Received 28 Mar 20236 Alden Close Helmshore Rossendale BB4 4AX
Received 28 Mar 2023Records 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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