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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17,473 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Heap Hey Farm Todmorden Old Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8RT
Received 18 Jul 1990117 Chatterton Road Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0PQ
Received 18 Jul 199013 Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7NG
Received 18 Jul 1990The Firepit Restaurant Station House New Hall Hey Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6AJ
Received 18 Jul 1990New Hall Hey Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 18 Jul 1990Nun Hills Mill Blackwood Road Stacksteads
Received 18 Jul 1990Off Commercial Street Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire
Received 16 Jul 199021 Yarmouth Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6SU
Received 16 Jul 1990Vale Lodge Meadow Park Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0QR
Received 16 Jul 199030 Blackburn Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5QQ
Received 16 Jul 199024 Blackburn Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5QQ
Received 16 Jul 1990100 Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8SA
Received 16 Jul 1990Whitworth Medical Centre Market Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8QS
Received 16 Jul 19903 Raven Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4EZ
Received 16 Jul 1990Lower Lodge Lea Bank Centre Hareholme Lane Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7JZ
Received 16 Jul 19901 Terra Cotta Buildings Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9QU
Received 13 Jul 1990Brookfield House Heald Lane Weir Bacup Lancashire OL13 8QZ
Received 13 Jul 19908 Melia Close Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6RQ
Received 12 Jul 19901 Bury Road & 10 Deardengate Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5PN
Received 12 Jul 1990Church Street Newchurch Rossendale Lancashire
Received 12 Jul 1990Moor Side Farm Bamford Road Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0RT
Received 11 Jul 199078-80 Todmorden Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9HJ
Received 9 Jul 199092-98 Cowm Park Way North Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8LW
Received 11 Jul 1990G And N Auto Helmshore Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4BG
Received 11 Jun 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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