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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.
8,170 approved · 1,798 refused · 511 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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 West Of Market Street Edenfield Bury Lancashire
Received 21 Jan 202661 Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0SF
Received 26 Jan 20267 Lark Hill Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8EY
Received 26 Jan 202641 Holland Avenue Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8JJ
Received 27 Jan 2026Laneside Barn Goodshaw Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RB
Received 26 Jan 2026Irwell Vale Mill Aitken Street Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0QG
Received 28 Jan 2026Land West Of Market Street Edenfield Bury Lancashire
Received 29 Jan 2026Land West Of Market Street Edenfield Bury Lancashire
Received 29 Jan 2026Land West Of Market Street Edenfield Bury Lancashire
Received 29 Jan 2026Land Off Holcombe Road Holcombe Road Helmshore Rossendale BB4 4QJ
Received 29 Jan 202623 Gordon Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 8DH
Received 2 Feb 20261 The Mount Church Street Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0RL
Received 2 Feb 202614 Maple Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5NQ
Received 2 Feb 20262 Peel Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5DZ
Received 3 Feb 2026Rawtenstall Market Hall Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7QX
Received 3 Feb 20262 Eagley Bank Shawforth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8HE
Received 3 Feb 20261 Yarmouth Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6SU
Received 4 Feb 20261 Tawny Close Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0GJ
Received 29 Jan 2026Unit 21 Three Point Business Park Charles Lane Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5EH
Received 6 Feb 2026Harthill Farm Goodshaw Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RB
Received 4 Feb 2026Land At Chapel Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 7 Feb 2026Bacup Primary Health Centre Rochdale Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9NR
Received 11 Feb 202616 Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8EU
Received 11 Feb 2026Lidl Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7NG
Received 11 Feb 2026Records 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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