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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
17,042 approved · 3,200 refused · 1,062 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Unit 16 Todd Hall Road Carrs Industrial Estate Haslingden
Received 22 Dec 199425-33 Woodcroft Street Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 22 Dec 1994Unit 1A Stoneholme Road Crawshawbooth Rossendale
Received 22 Dec 1994Land At Lea Brook Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 20 Dec 1994311 313 315 Market Street Whitworth Nr Rochdale
Received 19 Dec 1994All Saints R C High School Haslingden Road Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 19 Dec 1994Land At Rear Of Victoria Drive Haslingden Rossendale
Received 19 Dec 1994Plots 50 & 51 Moorland Rise Haslingden Rossendale
Received 12 Dec 1994(Amendment No 4) Plots 8 9 & 10 Heycrofts View Edenfield Ramsbottom
Received 13 Dec 19945 Heycrofts View Edenfield Ramsbottom
Received 13 Dec 1994Cordingley's Petrol STN Helmshore Road Haslingden Rossendale
Received 9 Dec 1994The Flowers Public House Todmorden Road Bacup
Received 8 Dec 1994Crawshawbooth County Primary School Burnley Road Crawshawbooth Rossendale
Received 7 Dec 199420/24 Clegg Street Haslingden Rossendale
Received 7 Dec 19944 Priory Close Newchurch Rossendale
Received 7 Dec 1994Land To The Rear Of 160 Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup
Received 7 Dec 1994Rawtenstall Precinct Public Conveniences James Street Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 7 Dec 1994Broadclough Mill Burnley Road Broadclough Bacup Lancs
Received 6 Dec 19941 Heap Clough Off Grane Road Haslingden Rossendale
Received 6 Dec 1994Allens Motors (Bacup) Ltd Central Garage Burnley Rd Bacup Lancs
Received 2 Dec 199430 Birch Avenue Haslingden Rossendale
Received 2 Dec 1994101 Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 2 Dec 1994Side Extension To Form Utility Room And Rear Extensions To Form An Enlarged Dinin 5 Alderwood Grove Edenfield Ramsbottom
Received 1 Dec 1994Midland Bank 57 Deardengate Haslingden Rossendale
Received 1 Dec 1994Records 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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