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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
17,506 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Jamestone Quarry Grane Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4AU
Received 16 Mar 1992Britannia Quarry Tong Lane Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8BB
Received 16 Mar 1992Hutch Bank Quarry Hutch Bank Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4PB
Received 16 Mar 1992Spring Hill Barn Edge Lane Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7SS
Received 20 Jul 1992Fairwall Farm Lee Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0JB
Received 20 Jul 1992Britannia Mill New Line Bacup Lancashire OL13 9RZ
Received 16 Jul 19929 Onchan Drive Bacup Lancashire OL13 9PX
Received 16 Jul 1992103 Staghills Road Newchurch Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7TY
Received 16 Jul 199267 Cherry Tree Way Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4JZ
Received 18 May 199219 St Peters Road Newchurch Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9EZ
Received 14 May 1992Unit 5 New Hall Hey Business Park New Hall Hey Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6HL
Received 14 May 1992St Georges Cottage Boarsgreave Lane Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7AD
Received 15 May 1992Heath Hill Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0SF
Received 12 May 1992243 Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7PA
Received 12 May 1992Land Off Holcombe Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire
Received 13 May 19924 Higher Hud Hey Roundhill Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5BW
Received 13 May 19929 Healey Grove Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8RX
Received 11 May 1992Land Off Edge Lane Bacup Lancashire
Received 11 May 199223 Heightside Avenue Newchurch Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9HA
Received 11 May 1992110 Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8SA
Received 11 May 19922 Hall Close Reeds Holme Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8PS
Received 11 May 1992Laund Farm Cribden Lane Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8UD
Received 20 Mar 1992Land Off Lower Cribden Avenue Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 23 Mar 1992Hutch Bank Quarry Hutch Bank Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4PB
Received 23 Mar 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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