Understanding planning · 13 min read
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.
9,112 approved · 1,969 refused · 563 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Apr 1975 to 13 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 20 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
Sharneyford Works Bacup Road Todmorden OL14
Received 10 Jul 2006Land Adjacent Holden Arms Grane Road Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4PD
Received 10 Jul 20063 Holme Lane Townsend Fold Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6JD
Received 5 Jul 20065A-5C Bank Street Rawtenstall Lancashire
Received 4 Jul 200631 Billington Avenue Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8UW
Received 4 Jul 20062 Penny Lodge Lane Loveclough Rossendale
Received 4 Jul 2006Field South Of Height End Bacup Old Road Weir Bacup Lancashire
Received 4 Jul 20061162 Burnley Road East Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9QR
Received 4 Jul 2006352 Burnley Road East Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9HU
Received 3 Jul 20063-5 Croft Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 9DB
Received 3 Jul 20066 Crofters Bank Crawshawbooth Rossendale BB4 8FH
Received 30 Jun 2006Playing Field Adjacent St Peters Avenue Haslingden Lancashire
Received 30 Jun 2006Sunnyfield Lench Road Waterfoot Rossendale BB4 7JH
Received 29 Jun 200666 Blackburn Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5QF
Received 29 Jun 2006Zion Cottage Saunders Height Lane Newchurch Rossendale BB4 9NB
Received 28 Jun 2006185 Burnley Road Bacup OL13 8RW
Received 27 Jun 2006Pasture Bottom Farm Todmorden Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9UZ
Received 27 Jun 20068 Waingap View Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8QD
Received 27 Jun 20063 St. Peters Road Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9EZ
Received 27 Jun 200612 The Moorlands Bacup OL138BT
Received 8 Aug 200626 Kay Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7LS
Received 27 Jun 2006Land Adjacent To 1124 Burnley Road East Water Rossendale
Received 26 Jun 2006Land Adjacent To 1124 Burnley Road East Water Rossendale
Received 26 Jun 2006Scar End Farm Weir Lane Weir Bacup OL13 8QB
Received 26 Jun 2006Records 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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage