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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17,523 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Acre Mill House Acre Mill Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0HF
Received 14 Apr 1993Land Off Wallbank Lane Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire
Received 13 Apr 1993Bleakholt Animal Sanctuary Bury Old Road Shuttleworth Ramsbottom Bury
Received 13 Apr 1993Salisbury House Pinch Clough Road Whitewell Bottom Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9RT
Received 8 Apr 1993Land Off James Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 8 Apr 1993Murwin Spodden Fold Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8TP
Received 8 Apr 199310 Jubilee Close Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4RN
Received 7 Apr 199317 Helmshore Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4BG
Received 8 Apr 1993Victoria WMC Henrietta Street Bacup Lancashire
Received 7 Apr 1993Ski Rossendale Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RR
Received 7 Apr 1993Land Off Mint Street Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire
Received 7 Apr 1993Land Off Pippin Street Bacup Lancashire
Received 7 Apr 199315 Market Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 8EX
Received 6 Apr 1993Hurstwood House New Hall Hey Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6AJ
Received 5 Apr 1993Colonial House Lee Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0EA
Received 5 Apr 1993Hurstwood House New Hall Hey Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6AJ
Received 5 Apr 1993Coach House Spring Mount Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 8JA
Received 2 Apr 1993Pinfold Works Moorlands View Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0GZ
Received 1 Apr 1993731 Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7EU
Received 1 Apr 1993Bacup And Rawtenstall Grammar School Glen Road Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7BJ
Received 24 Mar 1993Land Off Blackburn Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire BB4 6JY
Received 31 Mar 1993Moss Farm Blackwood Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0JL
Received 8 Apr 1993Height End Farm Bacup Old Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8PT
Received 31 Mar 1993385 Helmshore Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4JA
Received 31 Mar 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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