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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
17,524 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Jun 1973 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 31 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 3 Jun 1993Land Off Spring Gardens Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7DZ
Received 2 Jun 19932 Bent Estate Beaufort Road Weir Bacup Lancashire OL13 8QX
Received 1 Jun 1993669 Market Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire
Received 1 Jun 199313 Rochdale Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0JT
Received 1 Jun 1993Orchard Bank Lord Street Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8AD
Received 1 Jun 1993Home Farm Kirkdale Avenue Newchurch Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9EL
Received 1 Jun 199312 Knowl Meadow Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4LW
Received 25 May 19933 Spring Bank Acre Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8QU
Received 1 Jun 199319-21 Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7DQ
Received 28 May 1993Queens Arms 1 Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7NF
Received 28 May 19934 Philips Road Weir Bacup Lancashire OL13 8RH
Received 27 May 1993101 Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8EW
Received 28 May 1993Jeffery Barn Farm Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8RQ
Received 27 May 1993Rosehill House Bankside Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 8GU
Received 27 May 1993Land Off Smithy Brow Court Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 27 May 1993Land Off Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire
Received 26 May 19931 Victoria Drive Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4DT
Received 28 May 1993W Holland & Sons Ltd Blackburn Road Rising Bridge Accrington Lancashire BB5 2SA
Received 26 May 1993Drill Hall Lyndale Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4BP
Received 28 May 199321 Rose Vale Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7PF
Received 24 May 199355 Deardengate Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5QN
Received 26 May 19935 Rosebank Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0PY
Received 25 May 1993Baxenden Methodist Church 687 Blackburn Road Rising Bridge Accrington Lancashire BB5 2RY
Received 24 May 1993Records 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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