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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
17,514 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
17 Beaufort Road Weir Bacup Lancashire OL13 8RL
Received 20 Jul 1992Land Off Stanley Mount Bacup Lancashire
Received 20 Jul 19923 Greenfold Cottages Goodshaw Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8DP
Received 16 Jul 19925A Manchester Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5SL
Received 16 Jul 199217 Bankside Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 8HJ
Received 14 Jul 1992140A Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire
Received 14 Jul 1992Stubbins Church School School Court Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire
Received 13 Jul 1992Sunnybank Social Club Helmshore Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4LQ
Received 10 Jul 1992Top Of The Bank Farm Roundhill Lane Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5TY
Received 9 Jul 19921 Plantation Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7NZ
Received 9 Jul 199234 Grasmere Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4EB
Received 9 Jul 1992457 Grane Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4AT
Received 8 Jul 1992Land Off Jubilee Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 8 Jul 1992Far Fold Farm Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7AE
Received 6 Jul 1992Former Barlow Mill Park Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire
Received 6 Jul 1992Land Off Greens Lane Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire
Received 1 Jul 1992Rear Of 222 Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0TS
Received 2 Jul 1992Hill End Farm Park Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4AR
Received 3 Jul 1992Holmeswood Park Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 3 Jul 1992Freehold Mill Freeholds Road Shawforth Rochdale Lancashire
Received 2 Jul 199210 Musden Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4HA
Received 2 Jul 19928 Clarence Street Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8NX
Received 1 Jul 1992453 Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6JW
Received 1 Jul 1992316 Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0UJ
Received 1 Jul 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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