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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17,506 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Ox Hey House Helmshore Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BL8 4PQ
Received 23 Mar 1992Lee Quarry Cutler Lane Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire
Received 16 Mar 1992Stubbins Church School School Court Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire
Received 10 Mar 1992255 Haslingden Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6RX
Received 9 Mar 19921 Britannia Heights Rochdale Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9SD
Received 9 Mar 19924 Greave Terrace Todmorden Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9HL
Received 9 Mar 1992Land Off Rockliffe Road Bacup Lancashire
Received 10 Mar 1992Hall Carr Mill Fallbarn Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 9 Mar 1992Hall Carr Mill Fallbarn Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 9 Mar 199229-30 Tong End Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8BJ
Received 6 Mar 1992Dean Height Barn Coal Pit Lane Whitewell Bottom Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9SA
Received 6 Mar 1992Dean Height Barn Coal Pit Lane Whitewell Bottom Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9SA
Received 6 Mar 199218 Bolton Road North Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0EZ
Received 4 Mar 19921 Rosebank Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0PY
Received 3 Mar 1992Plot 10 Market Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire
Received 3 Mar 1992Fearns Hall Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0TH
Received 3 Mar 199216 Worston Close Constable Lee Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8UP
Received 3 Mar 199219 Anemone Drive Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6NJ
Received 2 Mar 1992Far Heightside Cottage Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9HG
Received 2 Mar 199228 Northfield Road Rising Bridge Accrington Lancashire BB5 2DY
Received 27 Feb 1992The Sprintman New Hall Hey Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6HR
Received 2 Mar 199210 Greave Clough Drive Bacup Lancashire OL13 9HP
Received 2 Mar 1992194 Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6DJ
Received 2 Mar 1992Land Off Trinity Street Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire
Received 2 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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