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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.
7,874 approved · 1,748 refused · 494 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Adjacent 31 Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale BB4 9AG
Received 11 Oct 20241 Barlow Fold Cherry Tree Lane Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6EG
Received 14 Oct 2024Crabtree Hurst Lench Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 7JH
Received 16 Oct 2024Land Off Holcombe Road Holcombe Road Helmshore Rossendale BB4 4QJ
Received 16 Oct 2024Sion Baptist Church Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 18 Oct 2024Edenwood Mill Edenwood Road Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0EX
Received 21 Oct 2024Crey Farm Landgate Shawforth Rossendale OL12 8XF
Received 21 Oct 202411 Fern Terrace Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5DY
Received 21 Oct 20249 Foxdale Close Bacup Lancashire OL13 9PN
Received 21 Oct 202419 Meadowcroft Close Reeds Holme Rossendale BB4 8DF
Received 21 Oct 2024Land To South Of 2 Tong Lane Bacup Lancashire
Received 22 Oct 20241 Shanter Close Shawforth Rochdale Rossendale OL12 8HB
Received 16 Oct 20242 Shanter Close Shawforth Rossendale OL12 8HB
Received 16 Oct 20248 Alden Close Helmshore Rossendale BB4 4AX
Received 28 Oct 2024New Hall Hey Retail Park Swanney Lodge Road New Hall Hey Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6HR
Received 28 Oct 2024New Hall Hey Retail Park Swanney Lodge Road New Hall Hey Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6HR
Received 28 Oct 2024Reddish Hill Farm Market Street Shawforth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8XD
Received 28 Oct 2024The Mount Duckworth Clough Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5AW
Received 28 Oct 2024Loveclough Fold Farm Loveclough Fold Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8QT
Received 28 Oct 2024170 Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0TH
Received 28 Oct 20247 Sherfin Nook Kings Highway Haslingden Rossendale BB5 2DT
Received 29 Oct 2024Land Adjacent 7 Lynns Court Weir Bacup Lancashire OL13 8RZ
Received 29 Oct 2024Iron Gate Barn Holcombe Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4AE
Received 29 Oct 20243 St James Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 9NJ
Received 1 Nov 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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