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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.
8,074 approved · 1,783 refused · 509 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Apr 1975 to 13 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 18 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Harthill Farm Goodshaw Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RB
Received 30 Jun 20255 Victoria Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5DL
Received 30 Jun 2025Bus Shelter St Marys Way, Outside Adsa Carpark Stand Q, Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 8EE
Received 3 Jul 2025Rossbrook House New Line Bacup Lancashire OL13 0BY
Received 3 Jul 20251 College Lane Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7LA
Received 4 Jul 2025300 Grane Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4PB
Received 3 Jul 2025Land At And Adjacent To Scout Moor Wind Farm Rossendale And Rochdale
Received 2 Jul 202596 Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8HH
Received 8 Jul 2025Butcher Acre Farm Bury Old Road Shuttleworth Ramsbottom Bury BL9 6SY
Received 8 Jul 2025Lower Lench Farm Lench Fold Clough Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7AF
Received 9 Jul 2025Brook House Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7DQ
Received 9 Jul 202516 Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8EU
Received 10 Jul 2025Land Off Fieldfare Way Bacup Lancashire
Received 10 Jul 2025Sunnyside House Burnley Road Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8LZ
Received 11 Jul 2025Land And Building To The North Of Reed Street Bacup Lancashire
Received 11 Jul 202528 Oak Street Shawforth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8NP
Received 11 Jul 2025Fair View Joinery Works Edge Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 9SS
Received 14 Jul 2025Former Cams Mill Holcombe Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire
Received 14 Jul 2025Garage Site Barnes Avenue Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8ST
Received 16 Jul 2025Land At Blackburn Road And Burnley Road / Land To The Rear Of Edenfield C.E. School, Edenfield, Rossendale
Received 17 Jul 2025491 Market Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8QN
Received 17 Jul 2025Adullam Cave Chapel Chapel Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5QR
Received 18 Jul 20252 Greenhill Dobbin Lane Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7TD
Received 18 Jul 2025Rawtenstall Market Hall Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7QX
Received 21 Jul 2025Records 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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