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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.
8,109 approved · 1,787 refused · 510 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Parkwood Lawn Tennis Club Haslingden Sports Centre Helmshore Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4DN
Received 29 Aug 20257 Cribden Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8HZ
Received 1 Sept 2025Development Adj Pinfold And Blackburn Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire
Received 1 Sept 202512 Broadway Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4HB
Received 2 Sept 20257 Market Street Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0JQ
Received 2 Sept 2025Higher Barn Stables Roundhill Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5TU
Received 2 Sept 2025Barn Hugh Rake Farm Cribden Lane Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8UE
Received 2 Sept 2025Hall Park Acre Rossendale Lancashire
Received 3 Sept 20252 Whitecroft Close Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4BD
Received 3 Sept 2025Hollingate Farm Rising Bridge Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB5 2SW
Received 3 Sept 2025Albert Mill Park Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4AR
Received 4 Sept 2025Land At Chapel Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5QR
Received 27 Aug 2025Laneside Barn Goodshaw Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RB
Received 2 Sept 2025Rossendale Pet Crematorium Co Operation Street Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8AG
Received 10 Sept 20259 Holden Wood Drive Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4RQ
Received 10 Sept 2025Plot 4 Futures Park Bacup Lancashire OL13 0BB
Received 10 Sept 2025Land At Lower Carr Farm Yarraville Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6BU
Received 10 Sept 2025Parrock Mill Barn Todmorden Road Bacup Lancashire
Received 11 Sept 2025High Barn Farm Studd Brow Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8LU
Received 12 Sept 2025Albert Mill Albert Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8PJ
Received 12 Sept 2025Land To The West Of Rooley Moor Road Rooley Moor Road Rooley Moor
Received 12 Sept 2025All Saints Rc Language College Haslingden Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6SJ
Received 15 Sept 2025Helm House Unsworth Street Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0JH
Received 16 Sept 2025St Veronicas Rc Primary School Raven Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4EZ
Received 17 Sept 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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