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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.
8,852 approved · 1,932 refused · 551 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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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.
3 New Barn Close Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4LN
Received 9 Mar 2007Beacon House 16 Beaconsfield Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5TD
Received 19 Mar 2007350 Helmshore Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4JA
Received 2 Mar 2007Spar Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8EW
Received 2 Jul 200716 Sunnybank Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4PF
Received 1 Mar 2007Lower Stone Fold Farm Lower Stone Fold Kings Highway Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB5 2DR
Received 18 Jun 2007Stubbins Mill Stubbins Lane Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0NH
Received 2 Mar 20074 Daneswood Avenue Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8UY
Received 28 Feb 2007Bank Nook Fish Rake Lane Edenfield Bury Lancashire BB4 7AH
Received 7 Mar 2007Tenterfield House 31 Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9AG
Received 5 Mar 2007Whitfield Mill Millfold Facit Rochdale Lancashire
Received 7 Mar 2007545 Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9LQ
Received 26 Feb 20072 Knowl Gap Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4DA
Received 26 Feb 2007Former Car Showroom Bacup Road Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9AA
Received 29 Mar 2007558 Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7TN
Received 26 Feb 2007Old Swallow Barn Higher Lane Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5UD
Received 23 Feb 2007Land Off Futures Park Bacup Lancashire
Received 23 Feb 2007Garage Site Plot 3 Higher Cloughfold Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7SU
Received 8 Mar 2007Reaps Moss Bacup Lancs
Received 20 Feb 2007Lower Calf Cote Meadow Park Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0QR
Received 21 Feb 200791 Bankside Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 8HP
Received 21 Feb 200722 Lower Cribden Avenue Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6SW
Received 21 Feb 200711 Coppice Drive Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8QA
Received 21 Feb 200712 Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6AA
Received 19 Feb 2007Records 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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