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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
17,466 approved · 3,260 refused · 1,068 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 18 Apr 1974 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Heald Lane Weir Bacup Lancashire OL13 8QN
Received 14 Sept 1993Victoria Works 679 Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7HB
Received 13 Sept 1993Former Bleachworks Off Kingsway Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 6 Sept 199340 Anemone Drive Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6NJ
Received 10 Sept 1993Land Off Rosebank Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire
Received 10 Sept 199310 Edinburgh Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4RA
Received 7 Sept 1993Land Off Market Street Bacup Lancashire
Received 7 Sept 1993Land Off St Peters Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 7 Sept 1993Land Off Lomas Lane Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 7 Sept 199341 Bury Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6PG
Received 7 Sept 1993The Valley Weaver 2 Blackburn Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5QQ
Received 7 Sept 1993Former Bleachworks Off Kingsway Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 6 Sept 1993Trickling Water Barn Sunny Bank Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4AL
Received 6 Sept 19933 Raven Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4EZ
Received 6 Sept 199365 Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7QN
Received 6 Sept 19935 Linden Close Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0LN
Received 6 Sept 1993Green Hill Farm Bamford Road Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0RT
Received 3 Sept 199316 Grane Park Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5HB
Received 23 Sept 1993Hugh Business Park Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 3 Sept 1993Land Off Sunny Bank Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire
Received 2 Sept 1993Tor End Tor End Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4AW
Received 2 Sept 199397 Deardengate Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5SN
Received 27 Aug 1993Land Off Stansfield Road Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire
Received 27 Aug 199318-20 Market Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 8EZ
Received 27 Aug 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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