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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.
8,221 approved · 1,806 refused · 517 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 At Moss Farm Greens Lane Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0HQ
Received 18 Feb 20261218 Burnley Road Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RG
Received 20 Feb 2026220 Helmshore Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4DJ
Received 2 Mar 2026Former James Killelea & Co Ltd Stoneholme Road Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8BA
Received 2 Mar 2026664 Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9HG
Received 23 Feb 202629 Horncliffe Close Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6EE
Received 27 Feb 202651 Lancaster Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4ER
Received 5 Mar 20267 Conway Road Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7ST
Received 5 Mar 2026Development Adj Pinfold And Blackburn Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire
Received 5 Mar 2026104 Laneside Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6PG
Received 6 Mar 20261 Hawthorn House Goodshaw Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8DJ
Received 9 Mar 20261 Hawthorn House Goodshaw Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8DJ
Received 10 Mar 2026Stone Acre Farm Rochdale Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0RL
Received 10 Mar 2026Development Adj Pinfold And Blackburn Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire
Received 11 Mar 2026393 Helmshore Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4JA
Received 11 Mar 202615 Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6QS
Received 11 Mar 202615 Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6QS
Received 11 Mar 2026114 Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8HH
Received 12 Mar 20266 Windsor Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4RB
Received 12 Mar 202666A Grasmere Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6LS
Received 13 Mar 2026Land Adjacent 117 & 119 Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0TF
Received 10 Mar 2026Hall Park Acre Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5BQ
Received 16 Mar 202634 Eden Lane Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0EB
Received 16 Mar 2026Hindle Pastures Highgate Lane Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 0TS
Received 11 Mar 2026Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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