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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17,523 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Cribden View Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RR
Received 19 Mar 1993Jamestone Quarry Grane Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4AU
Received 29 Jul 1993Land Off Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire
Received 27 Jul 199333 Hall Carr Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6AW
Received 27 Jul 1993Rake Foot Farm Holcombe Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4AS
Received 27 Jul 19938 Ratcliffe Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5DE
Received 27 Jul 1993Victoria Works Hill End Lane Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire
Received 23 Jul 1993Higher Trough Farm Landgate Shawforth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8HT
Received 23 Jul 199348-50 Lane Head Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 9BT
Received 23 Jul 1993371 Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RR
Received 23 Jul 199311 Central View Bacup Lancashire OL13 9JX
Received 22 Jul 1993Market Street Service Station Market Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 0AZ
Received 22 Jul 1993Hardmans Business Centre New Hall Hey Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 22 Jul 199315 Clegg Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5LW
Received 21 Jul 199344 Ventnor Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6QP
Received 21 Jul 199354 Barnes Avenue Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8ST
Received 20 Jul 199319 Curven Edge Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4LP
Received 20 Jul 1993Stansfield House Acre Park Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire
Received 19 Mar 1993Sowclough Farm Sowclough Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 8LB
Received 17 Mar 199379 Booth Road Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9BP
Received 11 Mar 1993Land Off Clegg Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5LW
Received 17 Mar 1993Dearden Clough Rochdale Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire
Received 5 Mar 1993Old Meadows Farm Meadows Avenue Bacup Lancashire OL13 8DG
Received 16 Mar 1993Old Meadows Farm Meadows Avenue Bacup Lancashire OL13 8DG
Received 16 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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