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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17,520 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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: 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
25 Longacres Drive Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8JT
Received 11 Nov 1992Carter Place Farm Hall Park Acre Rossendale Lancashire
Received 11 Nov 1992Haslingden Football Club Blackburn Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire BB4 6JY
Received 9 Nov 1992Land Off Coal Pit Lane Bacup Lancashire
Received 9 Nov 1992Sunnybank Farm Co Operation Street Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8UE
Received 9 Nov 1992Land Off Dearden Fold Edenfield Bury Lancashire
Received 6 Nov 199227 Lord Avenue Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0RY
Received 5 Nov 199217 Bankside Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 8HJ
Received 5 Nov 1992Underbank Mill Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8DB
Received 5 Nov 19924 Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 5 Nov 19926 Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6AA
Received 5 Nov 1992The Hut Hill Street Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire
Received 5 Nov 1992612 Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8AJ
Received 1 Dec 199212 Holme Bank Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6HJ
Received 4 Nov 199242 Bolton Road North Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0EZ
Received 2 Nov 199236 Longacres Drive Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8JT
Received 30 Oct 199238 Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9AF
Received 30 Oct 1992Wavell House Holcombe Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire
Received 29 Oct 1992Garage Colony East Bank Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 27 Oct 199261 Burnley Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0HX
Received 29 Oct 1992Land Off Rochdale Road Bacup Lancashire
Received 28 Oct 1992Stepping Stone Health Centre Warner Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5SJ
Received 28 Oct 1992Hugh Business Park Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 26 Oct 1992Rear Of 482-484 Market Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8QW
Received 26 Oct 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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