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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
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Rossendale Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Rossendale website
14,208 approved · 2,692 refused · 902 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Apr 1975 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 26 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Union Mill Bacup Road Cloughfold Rossendale
Received 11 Apr 2001Portion Of Land To South Of Existing Dwellinghouse At Woodside Edenwood Lane Stubbins
Received 11 Apr 2001TNT Warth Goods Depot Bacup Road Waterfoot Rossendale
Received 11 Apr 2001Heath Hill House Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup
Received 11 Apr 200114 Sunnybank Helmshore Rossendale
Received 10 Apr 2001Meadow Top Farm Edgeside Lane Waterfoot Rossendale
Received 10 Apr 2001555 Newchurch Road Higher Cloughfold Rossendale
Received 9 Apr 200118 Holden Place Haslingden Rossendale
Received 9 Apr 2001533 Market Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8QW
Received 8 Apr 2001The Southern Gable And The Top Of The North East Corner Of The Building. The Development Carr Bank Farm Pinner Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale
Received 2 Apr 2001All Saints R C High School Haslingden Rd Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 28 Mar 2001BRGS Glen Road Waterfoot Rossendale
Received 28 Mar 2001The Southern Gable And The Top Of The North East Corner Of The Building. Carr Bank Farm Pinner Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale
Received 2 Apr 200110 Warren Drive Britannia Bacup
Received 5 Apr 2001Newgate Farm Rochdale Road Turn Ramsbottom Nr Bury
Received 2 Apr 2001Land Adj To Worswick Memorial Ground Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 30 Mar 2001Spring Mill House Spring Mill Reservoir Wallbank Drive Whitworth Nr Rochdale
Received 26 Mar 200141 Grasmere Road Haslingden Rossendale
Received 27 Mar 2001Brow Edge Farm Cribden Side Haslingden Rossendale
Received 26 Mar 2001Bentgate Works Manchester Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6LN
Received 26 Mar 2001Hazel Mill Blackburn Road Haslingden Rossendale
Received 23 Mar 2001Hazel Mill Blackburn Road Haslingden Rossendale
Received 23 Mar 2001Land At Pendle Avenue And Coniston Way Bacup Lancs
Received 22 Mar 2001Short Clough Lea Rushbed Crawshawbooth Rossendale
Received 21 Mar 2001Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart 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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