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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
17,469 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Jun 1973 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 5 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Greenhill Garage Rochdale Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9NS
Received 12 Dec 1990Dura Mill Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8PE
Received 12 Dec 199030 New Way Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8AN
Received 10 Dec 1990Land Off Dean Lane Water Rossendale Lancashire
Received 10 Dec 1990Land To Rear Of Danesmoor Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 10 Dec 1990Land Off Burnley Road Rossendale Lancashire
Received 10 Dec 1990101 Burnley Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0HX
Received 10 Dec 1990142 Edgeside Lane Edgeside Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9TR
Received 10 Dec 1990Stubbins Vale Mill Stubbins Vale Road Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0NT
Received 7 Dec 1990Todd Hall Barn Todd Hall Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5LA
Received 7 Dec 1990Loveclough Filter House Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RG
Received 7 Dec 1990Bleach Works Site Off Holcombe Road Helmshore
Received 23 May 1991Health Club Facility And A Managers Dwelling Land Off Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 8 May 199112 Stubbins Street Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0NJ
Received 7 Dec 1990Hope Mill Bury Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0EN
Received 6 Dec 1990Nar End Farm Ending Rake Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 0TT
Received 6 Dec 1990Garage Plot South Shore Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 6 Dec 199039 Oak Street Shawforth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8NP
Received 6 Dec 1990Huttock Top Farm Newchurch Old Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8HS
Received 6 Dec 1990Heightside Farm Edge Vale Lane Reeds Holme Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8TH
Received 5 Dec 199012 Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9AF
Received 30 Nov 1990211 Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7PA
Received 7 Nov 1990Block B Goodshaw Fold Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8UH
Received 7 Nov 199020 Fair Hill Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4JY
Received 7 Nov 1990Records 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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