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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17,523 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bridge End Mills Tong Lane Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire
Received 4 Mar 1993Higher Stubbins Farmhouse Helmshore Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BL8 4PE
Received 15 Mar 19932 Coppice Drive Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8QA
Received 15 Mar 1993Brookfield House Heald Lane Weir Bacup Lancashire OL13 8QZ
Received 15 Mar 1993548 Manchester Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6LN
Received 15 Mar 199316 Dalesford Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6QH
Received 15 Mar 199326 Rock Bridge Fold Whitewell Bottom Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9PU
Received 15 Mar 19931 Swinshaw Cottages Goodshaw Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RA
Received 15 Mar 199317,19,21,23,25,27,29 & 31 Eden Avenue Edenfield Bury Lancashire
Received 15 Mar 199325 Birch Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5NF
Received 9 Mar 1993Land Off School Street Whitewell Bottom Rossendale Lancashire
Received 10 Mar 199318 Horncliffe Close Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6EE
Received 11 Mar 19933A Market Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 8EX
Received 10 Mar 1993667 Market Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8DP
Received 10 Mar 1993Unit 5 Spodden Mill Station Road Facit Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8LJ
Received 10 Mar 199315 Hyacinth Close Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6JU
Received 9 Mar 1993Garage Colony Osborne Terrace Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire
Received 9 Mar 1993Land Off Oakenshaw View Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire
Received 9 Mar 1993Land Off Rawsthorne Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 11 Mar 199322 Sunnyside Close Reeds Holme Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8PE
Received 9 Mar 1993Kirk Hill Farm Kirk Hill Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8UA
Received 8 Mar 1993Land Off Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 8 Mar 1993361 Rochdale Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9TH
Received 2 Mar 199346 Cutler Lane Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0HW
Received 5 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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