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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
17,523 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
30 Oak Street Shawforth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8NP
Received 23 Apr 1993Land At Pendle Avenue Bacup Lancashire
Received 22 Jun 1993Garage Colony James Street Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire
Received 23 Apr 19932 Salisbury Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5TB
Received 23 Apr 1993Pleasant View Farm Helmshore Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BL8 4PQ
Received 23 Apr 1993Near Pastures Farm Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9NH
Received 22 Apr 1993Ashlands Nursing Home Turnpike Newchurch Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9DU
Received 22 Apr 199324 Park Wood Drive Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6RP
Received 22 Apr 1993112 Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0TA
Received 22 Apr 1993Garage Site William Street Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire
Received 20 Apr 199326 Bowker Street Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0QQ
Received 20 Apr 1993Georges Buildings Millar Barn Lane Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire
Received 19 Apr 1993305 Market Street Shawforth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8HF
Received 19 Apr 1993Brookside Industrial Estate Lloyd Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire
Received 19 Apr 1993The Valley Weaver 1 Blackburn Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5QQ
Received 19 Apr 1993Todd Hall Farm Todd Hall Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5LA
Received 16 Apr 199384 Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8EG
Received 19 Apr 1993Rossendale Pet Crematorium Co Operation Street Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8AG
Received 23 Apr 1993Collinge Fold Farm Collinge Fold Lane Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8JQ
Received 15 Apr 199338 Hud Hey Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5JH
Received 15 Apr 19937 Bonfire Hill Road Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8PG
Received 15 Apr 199314 Foxdale Close Bacup Lancashire OL13 9PN
Received 14 Apr 1993526 Market Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8QW
Received 14 Apr 199391 Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7QN
Received 14 Apr 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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