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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
17,254 approved · 3,230 refused · 1,065 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 10 Feb 1975 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 30 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Roundhill Farm Roundhill Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5TU
Received 8 Apr 199425 Townsend Street Haslingden Rossendale
Received 8 Apr 199411 Edge Lane Higher Cloughfold Rossendale
Received 7 Apr 1994Tor View School Clod Lane Haslingden Rossendale
Received 6 Apr 1994These Dwellings Were Approved Under Reserved Matters Appro Former Dearden Clough Mill Bury Road Edenfield Ramsbottom
Received 5 Apr 199445 Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 26 Apr 1994Land At Horncliffe Quarry Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 5 Apr 199426 Daisy Bank Bacup Lancs
Received 5 Apr 1994Britannia County Primary School Rochdale Road Britannia Bacup
Received 5 Apr 199416 Bowker Street Irwell Vale Ramsbottom
Received 5 Apr 19945 Lloyd Street Whitworth Rochdale
Received 24 Mar 1994Trinity Baptist Church Market Street Bacup
Received 24 Mar 1994Marl Pits Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 24 Mar 1994Highfield Cottage Highfield Road Hareholme Rossendale
Received 21 Mar 1994240 Grane Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4PB
Received 21 Mar 199433 Greensnook Lane Bacup Lancs
Received 21 Mar 199424 Woodcroft Avenue Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 18 Mar 19944 Dobbin Close Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7TH
Received 18 Mar 1994Fearns High School Fearns Moss Bacup Lancs
Received 21 Mar 1994Land To The Rear Of 19 Dobbin Lane Higher Cloughfold Rossendale
Received 9 Jun 1994254 Market Street Whitworth Rochdale
Received 9 Jun 1994Land Adj To Old Wambs Farm Heald Lane Bacup Lancs
Received 8 Jun 1994Land At Commercial Street Loveclough Rossendale
Received 8 Jun 199460A Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 7 Jun 1994Records 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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