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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.
7,725 approved · 1,720 refused · 483 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Apr 1975 to 13 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 17 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Duke Street Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7EZ
Received 6 Jun 2024Hollands Pies Ltd Blackburn Road Rising Bridge Accrington Lancashire BB5 2SA
Received 6 Jun 2024189 Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7NW
Received 7 Jun 2024Land At Maden Recreation Ground Maden Road Bacup Lancashire
Received 7 Jun 2024Lee Farm Barn Stubbylee Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 0DD
Received 10 Jun 202434 Manchester Road Haslingden Rossendale BB4 5ST
Received 10 Jun 2024The Croft Haslingden Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6RE
Received 10 Jun 20243 Mayfair Close Helmshore Rossendale BB4 4LL
Received 11 Jun 2024536 Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 7TL
Received 11 Jun 2024Flat 5 22A Yorkshire Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 9AE
Received 11 Jun 2024Holly Bank Church Street Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0RW
Received 17 Jun 2024Rivermeade Bowker Street Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0QA
Received 17 Jun 2024Horncliffe Mansion Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6JS
Received 18 Jun 20243 Greenhill Dobbin Lane Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7TD
Received 18 Jun 202436 David Street Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0TT
Received 19 Jun 20241 College Lane Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7LA
Received 19 Jun 2024Horncliffe Mansion Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6JS
Received 19 Jun 20242 Carr Head New Barn Lane Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 7AQ
Received 20 Jun 2024Holme Nook Farm Holme Street Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0ES
Received 20 Jun 2024Entrance To Railway Tunnels Newchurch Road Waterfoot Rossendale
Received 21 Jun 2024Wesley Old Hall Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8RA
Received 24 Jun 2024Height Farm Sliven Clod Road Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8FY
Received 24 Jun 2024Land Adjacent 121 Goodshaw Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8DJ
Received 24 Jun 2024Wynsors World Of Shoes Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0BL
Received 26 Jun 2024Records 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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