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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
17,473 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Britannia Mill Mill Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4JN
Received 18 Jul 1990119 Grane Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5ED
Received 1 Aug 199033A Deardengate Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5QN
Received 2 Aug 1990Clough Street Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire
Received 3 Aug 1990Rear Of 51Helmshore Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 3 Aug 1990Slackgate Farm Tong Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 9JQ
Received 2 Aug 199020 Olive Terrace Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8JZ
Received 2 Aug 1990Cribden End Lane Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 6 Aug 1990Tnt Express (uk) Ltd Stubbins Vale Road Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0NP
Received 3 Aug 19902 Victoria Drive Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4DT
Received 1 Aug 1990Ramsey Avenue Bacup Lancashire OL13 9PG
Received 8 Aug 1990Lower Boarsgreave Farm Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7AB
Received 31 Jul 199016 Deardengate Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 31 Jul 1990Rossendale Service Station Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7HB
Received 31 Jul 1990Site Of Former St Peters RC School Bridleway Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9DS
Received 30 Jul 199017 Turnpike Newchurch Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9DU
Received 30 Jul 1990Tong Lane Bacup Lancashire
Received 27 Jul 1990Glen Service Station Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0NN
Received 30 Jul 199056 Bury Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire
Received 30 Jul 1990Georges Buildings Millar Barn Lane Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire
Received 30 Jul 1990Tong Lane Bacup Lancashire
Received 27 Jul 1990Tong Lane Bacup Lancashire
Received 27 Jul 1990The Crescent New Line Bacup Lancashire OL13 9RX
Received 27 Jul 1990219 Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7PA
Received 27 Jul 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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