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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.
7,740 approved · 1,724 refused · 487 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
34 Douglas Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9PR
Received 27 Jun 2024Far Brex Farm Brex Coal Pit Lane Whitewell Bottom Rossendale OL13 8NN
Received 27 Jun 2024Park View Cottage Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale BB4 7EA
Received 1 Jul 2024Rawtenstall Market Hall Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 7QX
Received 1 Jul 2024131 Edgeside Lane Edgeside Rossendale BB4 9TR
Received 1 Jul 2024Slingco Ltd Station Road Facit Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8LJ
Received 1 Jul 2024Old Cowpe Hall Barn Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7AE
Received 1 Jul 20244 Tawny Close Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0GJ
Received 2 Jul 2024318 Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0LD
Received 1 Jul 202476 Rydal Road Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4EF
Received 3 Jul 20245 St Thomas Close Helmshore Rossendale BB4 4PY
Received 3 Jul 202416 Kingston Crescent Helmshore Rossendale BB4 4LH
Received 3 Jul 2024Braeside Market Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8RU
Received 3 Jul 2024Irwell Vale Mill Site Aitken Street Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0QG
Received 3 Jul 202431 Hurst Lane Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7RE
Received 4 Jul 20249 - 13 Regent Street Haslingden Rossendale BB4 5HQ
Received 4 Jul 2024165 Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 7NW
Received 8 Jul 2024Sowclough Stables Sowclough Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 8LB
Received 8 Jul 2024Land At Former Spring Mill Whitworth Rochdale
Received 8 Jul 20243 Greenhill Dobbin Lane Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7TD
Received 9 Jul 202426 Queensway Newchurch Rossendale BB4 7UB
Received 9 Jul 2024Goodshawfold Farm Cottage Goodshawfold Road Loveclough Rossendale BB4 8QS
Received 9 Jul 2024767 Market Street Whitworth Rossendale OL12 8LS
Received 9 Jul 2024Helmshore Cottage Anemone Drive Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4NT
Received 9 Jul 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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