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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17,523 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Swinshaw Cottages Goodshaw Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RA
Received 30 Mar 1993Old Meadows Cottage Meadows Avenue Bacup Lancashire OL13 8DG
Received 31 Mar 199320 Chestnut Drive Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6DP
Received 30 Mar 1993Land Off Tunstead Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire
Received 30 Mar 1993Garage Colony Tom Lane Edgeside Rossendale Lancashire
Received 29 Mar 19932 Alden Rise Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4LZ
Received 29 Mar 199326 Bowker Street Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0QQ
Received 29 Mar 1993Rossendale School Bamford Road Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0RT
Received 26 Mar 19934 Hargreaves Court Whitewell Bottom Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9QA
Received 26 Mar 1993Orama Mill Hall Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8TL
Received 26 Mar 19933 Dell Meadow Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8RS
Received 26 Mar 1993Lower Mow Graine Farm Bankside Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 8EJ
Received 26 Mar 1993Collinge Fold Farm Collinge Fold Lane Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8JQ
Received 25 Mar 199321 Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8SA
Received 25 Mar 1993Former Brandwood Quarry Blackwood Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0PS
Received 24 Mar 199311 Market Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 8EY
Received 25 Mar 199312 Slaidburn Avenue Constable Lee Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8JS
Received 24 Mar 199314 Heycrofts View Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0HG
Received 24 Mar 199321 Whitehead Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7RB
Received 24 Mar 199337 Dale Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 8BA
Received 23 Mar 19936 Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8EW
Received 22 Mar 1993Land Off Grane Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 22 Mar 199319 Croft Acres Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0LX
Received 19 Mar 1993Lobden Golf Club Whitworth Rake Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8XJ
Received 19 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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