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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
17,520 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Jun 1973 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 31 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
25 Sandown Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6PL
Received 22 Feb 1993286 Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0UJ
Received 22 Feb 199327A Market Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 0AJ
Received 22 Feb 1993Garage Colony Craven Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 18 Feb 1993Rear Of 222 Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0TS
Received 18 Feb 19934 Short Clough Close Reeds Holme Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8PT
Received 19 Feb 1993The Coach House Turnpike Newchurch Rossendale Lancashire
Received 17 Feb 19936-8 Kay Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7LS
Received 17 Feb 199322 Church Street Newchurch Rossendale Lancashire
Received 17 Feb 1993Land Off Woodland View Bacup Lancashire
Received 17 Feb 1993137 Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RR
Received 17 Feb 199333 Carr Lane Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7BY
Received 17 Feb 199313 Rudd Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5DG
Received 16 Feb 1993207 Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6DJ
Received 16 Feb 19936 Hardman Close Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7DL
Received 16 Feb 1993Land Off Laneside Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 16 Feb 1993Helmcroft Bungalow Helmcroft Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4DR
Received 16 Feb 199373 Booth Road Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9BP
Received 15 Feb 1993Lower Boarsgreave Farm Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7AB
Received 11 Feb 1993Land Off Eagley Bank Shawforth Rochdale Lancashire
Received 11 Feb 1993Land Off Station Road Facit Rochdale Lancashire
Received 10 Feb 199320 New Way Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8AN
Received 10 Feb 19939 Rochdale Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9NW
Received 10 Feb 1993Albion Mill Helmshore Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4JR
Received 10 Feb 1993Records 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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