Understanding planning · 13 min read
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17,520 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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: 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
33 Hazel Grove Bacup Lancashire OL13 9XT
Received 29 Jan 1993Warcock Farm Warcock Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 9ES
Received 28 Jan 1993Arran Nurseries Gas Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4PT
Received 28 Jan 1993W Holland & Sons Ltd Blackburn Road Rising Bridge Accrington Lancashire BB5 2SA
Received 28 Jan 1993Size House Lee Street Bacup Lancashire
Received 28 Jan 199325 Birch Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5NF
Received 28 Jan 19931-3 Gaghills Road Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9BB
Received 26 Jan 19931 Parkinson Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5DR
Received 26 Jan 1993Swan Hotel 96 Market Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 0AY
Received 26 Jan 1993Garage Colony Wales Road Edgeside Rossendale Lancashire
Received 26 Jan 19935 St James Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 9NJ
Received 26 Jan 19933 Healey Stones Ending Rake Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire
Received 25 Jan 1993Land Off Tunstead Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire
Received 25 Jan 199314 Whitecroft Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4BU
Received 25 Jan 1993Lodge Meadow Greave Clough Drive Bacup Lancashire OL13 9HP
Received 25 Jan 1993Holmefield Garage Ltd Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8EW
Received 22 Jan 199318 Manchester Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5ST
Received 21 Jan 199311 St James Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 9NJ
Received 21 Jan 199315 Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6QS
Received 21 Jan 199350 Rising Bridge Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5BL
Received 20 Jan 1993Winfield Engineering River Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 9QX
Received 19 Jan 1993Land Off Lane Head Lane Bacup Lancashire
Received 19 Jan 1993Brookfield House Heald Lane Weir Bacup Lancashire OL13 8QZ
Received 18 Jan 1993Land Off Heald Lane Weir Bacup Lancashire
Received 18 Jan 1993Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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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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