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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
16,763 approved · 3,160 refused · 1,061 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Apr 1975 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 29 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Alta Vista House Hall Fold Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8TT
Received 13 Oct 199568 Mercer Crescent Helmshore Rossendale
Received 13 Oct 1995St Stephens Church Grane Road Haslingden Rossendale
Received 13 Oct 1995St Stephens Church Grane Road Haslingden Rossendale
Received 13 Oct 1995Rebuilt And Extended Portion Of The Building (Extension In Length And Width) Incorporating The Blackwood Road Bacup Lancs
Received 20 Oct 19951 Goodshaw Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale
Received 20 Oct 1995Site Adjacent To Kwik Save Newhallhey Road Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 9 Oct 199532 Shawclough Road Waterfoot Rossendale
Received 9 Oct 1995Duckworth Clough Farm Barn Clough End Haslingden Rossendale
Received 5 Oct 1995Turn Hill Farm Dean Lane Lumb Rossendale
Received 4 Oct 1995Turn Hill Farm Dean Lane Lumb Rossendale
Received 4 Oct 1995Ilex Mill Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 3 Oct 1995Ilex Mill Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 3 Oct 1995Plot 6 Garage Colony Queensway Newchurch Rossendale
Received 4 Oct 1995Lumb Holes Mill Cowpe Road Waterfoot Rossendale
Received 2 Oct 1995Charles Lane Haslingden Rossendale
Received 28 Sept 1995Land To Rear Of 150 New Line Bacup
Received 28 Sept 1995Temple Court Off Union Street Bacup
Received 9 Oct 1995Temple Court Market Site Off Union Street Bacup
Received 28 Sept 1995Heather Bank Highgate Lane Healey Whitworth
Received 27 Sept 1995Land Off Longacres Drive Whitworth Rochdale
Received 31 Oct 1995Garden Curtilage Former Cemetary Lodge 19 Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 25 Sept 1995Rear Of 582 Bacup Road Waterfoot Rossendale
Received 25 Sept 199536 Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 25 Sept 1995Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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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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