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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
17,076 approved · 3,206 refused · 1,062 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Lee Quarry Lee Road Bacup
Received 8 Nov 1994Whitworth County High School Hall Fold Whitworth Nr Rochdale
Received 1 Nov 1994137 Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 31 Oct 1994222 Helmshore Road Haslingden Rossendale
Received 27 Oct 1994Plot 5 Edenwood Lane Bolton Road North Ramsbottom
Received 27 Oct 199432 Daisy Bank Bacup Lancs
Received 25 Oct 199413A Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 21 Oct 1994Land To The Rear Of 7 Rockliffe Road Bacup
Received 24 Oct 199461 Tonacliffe Road Whitworth Rochdale
Received 24 Oct 1994Plot No 27 Garage Colony Park Road Waterfoot Rossendale
Received 20 Oct 1994Hollands Pies Ltd Rising Bridge Road Accrington
Received 20 Oct 1994Coldwells Farm Roundhill Road Haslingden Rossendale
Received 18 Oct 199416 Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 19 Oct 1994Britannia Mill New Line Bacup
Received 14 Oct 1994St Mary's Primary School Piccadilly Street Haslingden Rossendale
Received 14 Oct 1994To Two Tennis Courts 7M In Height Tennis Courts Off Parkwood Drive Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 13 Oct 199465 Longacres Drive Whitworth Rochdale
Received 13 Oct 1994Asda Superstore Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 11 Oct 199414 Heycrofts View Edenfield Ramsbottom
Received 11 Oct 1994Lane Top Farm Heightside Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale
Received 7 Oct 1994Former St Johns Vicarage Dale Street Bacup Lancs
Received 6 Oct 1994Land Between 36 & 38 Rosendale Crescent Bacup
Received 6 Oct 1994Land At Grove Street/Todmorden Road Bacup
Received 4 Oct 1994The Queens Arms Public House Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 3 Oct 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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