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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.
7,544 approved · 1,668 refused · 466 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
20 Rook Hill Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0SP
Received 19 Jul 2023New Bridge House Manchester Road Haslingden Rossendale BB4 6LB
Received 19 Jul 202356 Stubbins Street Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0NL
Received 19 Jul 202323 Moorland Rise Haslingden Rossendale BB4 6UA
Received 19 Jul 2023Units 1 & 2 Rawtenstall Bus Station Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 7LZ
Received 19 Jul 2023Tall Trees 10 Beech Close Bacup Lancashire OL13 9DS
Received 20 Jul 2023Whitworth Bowling Green Off Market Street Whitworth Rossendale OL12 8DP
Received 20 Jul 202338 Greens Lane Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4EX
Received 21 Jul 2023Slingco Ltd Station Road Facit Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8LJ
Received 21 Jul 202315 Quarry Street Shawforth Rossendale OL12 8HD
Received 24 Jul 2023406 Bury Road / 1 Clayton Avenue Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6EW
Received 24 Jul 20235 The Hedgerows Whitworth Rossendale OL12 8AW
Received 26 Jul 2023365 Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RR
Received 26 Jul 202348 Rydal Road Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4EE
Received 27 Jul 2023Building At Lower Lench Farm Lench Fold Clough Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7AF
Received 28 Jul 2023Mansion House Farm Kings Highway Haslingden Rossendale BB5 2DP
Received 28 Jul 2023Land Adjacent Reed Street Bacup Lancashire
Received 28 Jul 20232 Springbank House Lodge Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 0BJ
Received 31 Jul 20234 Hawthorn Avenue Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0EY
Received 31 Jul 2023151 Rochdale Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0RG
Received 31 Jul 2023181 Rochdale Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0RG
Received 31 Jul 2023134 Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6DJ
Received 31 Jul 202367 Deardengate Haslingden Rossendale BB4 5SN
Received 1 Aug 2023Over 69 Deardengate Haslingden Rossendale BB4 5SN
Received 1 Aug 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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