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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
17,514 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Jun 1973 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 1 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
42 East Street Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4JT
Received 28 May 19923 Sunnybank Close Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4PS
Received 28 May 19921185 Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RG
Received 28 May 199269-73 Market Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8RW
Received 26 May 1992Healey Hall Shawclough Road Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire
Received 26 May 19921 Lyndale Close Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8LT
Received 26 May 1992715 Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7EU
Received 21 May 19921A Hillside Crescent Weir Bacup Lancashire OL13 8QL
Received 20 May 1992194 Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6DJ
Received 20 May 1992163 Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7NW
Received 19 May 199220 Daisy Hill Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7RJ
Received 19 May 19927 Northfield Road Rising Bridge Accrington Lancashire BB5 2SR
Received 19 May 199213 Bankside Close Bacup Lancashire OL13 8HZ
Received 19 May 1992Little Tooter Hill Quarry Todmorden Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9UQ
Received 18 May 1992Woodtop Garage Bury Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire
Received 18 May 1992Land Off Market Street Bacup Lancashire
Received 18 May 1992Holden Mill House Grane Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4PL
Received 18 May 1992New Park House New Line Bacup Lancashire OL13 9AU
Received 18 May 1992Cowm Top Farm High Barn Lane Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire
Received 15 May 1992Glen Service Station Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0NN
Received 11 May 1992Wavell House Holcombe Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire
Received 8 May 1992Edgeside House Ashworth Lane Edgeside Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9TJ
Received 8 May 1992Land Off Cherry Tree Way Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire
Received 8 May 199232 Fernhill Crescent Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 8JU
Received 8 May 1992Records 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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