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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
17,006 approved · 3,195 refused · 1,062 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Midland Bank 17 Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 30 Jan 1995Haslingden Swimming Baths East Bank Avenue Haslingden
Received 27 Jan 19953 Thirlmere Avenue Haslingden Rossendale
Received 26 Jan 1995Plot 3 Garage Site Brearley Street Bacup Lancs
Received 25 Jan 1995New Main Entrance Improvements To Car Park And Construction Of Machinery Store Walmersley Golf Club Garretts Close Walmersley Nr Bury
Received 25 Jan 199510 Turnhill Cottages Turn Hill Farm Water Rossendale
Received 25 Jan 1995Store At Ground Floor Level & A Bedroom & Bathroom At Firs 10 Turnhill Cottages Turn Hill Farm Water Rossendale
Received 25 Jan 1995Mencap House Warth Old Road Waterfoot Waterfoot
Received 24 Jan 1995And Backfill Existing Structures Tanks And Chambers And Other Minor Engineering Works. The Development May Affect The S Former Sheephouse Impounding Reservoir Rochdale Road Bacup
Received 24 Jan 1995Land At Kirk Hill Farm Rake Foot Haslingden Rossendale
Received 24 Jan 1995Land At Gandy Brow Gardens Market Street Whitworth Rochdale
Received 24 Jan 1995Middle Tunstead Farmhouse Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup
Received 24 Jan 1995And Sunday 1000 - 2200 626 Burnley Road East Whitewell Bottom Rossendale
Received 23 Jan 19954 Cambridge Street Haslingden Rossendale
Received 23 Jan 1995Land To The Rear Of 460 Market Street Shawforth Rochdale
Received 20 Jan 1995Plot 8 Garage Site Whittle Street Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 20 Jan 1995Windows And Doors In Existing Openings And Installation O Dykes House Farm Off Burnley Road Bacup Lancs
Received 19 Jan 1995Dykes House Farm Off Burnley Road Bacup Lancs
Received 19 Jan 1995Former Barn Adjoining 5 Higher Lane Haslingden Rossendale
Received 19 Jan 1995Land Adjoining Weir Bottom Cottage Weir Lane Bacup
Received 19 Jan 1995Plot G Greenhill Road/Rockliffe Street Bacup Lancs
Received 18 Jan 1995Plot F At Greenhill Road/Rockliffe Street Bacup Lancs
Received 18 Jan 199519 St James Street Bacup Lancs
Received 18 Jan 1995Hardman Business Centre Newhallhey Road Rawtenstall
Received 18 Jan 1995Records 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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