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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17,473 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
468 Newchurch Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0NB
Received 29 Jun 1990Atherton Way Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire
Received 27 Jun 1990Market Street Shawforth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8HJ
Received 28 Jun 19901 Wood Bank Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4NA
Received 28 Jun 1990Olive Mill Lee Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0EA
Received 27 Jun 199020 Peel Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5DZ
Received 27 Jun 1990Ray Solomon Commercials Ltd Knowsley Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4RX
Received 27 Jun 1990Springhill House Edge Lane Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7SP
Received 27 Jun 1990Healey Lodge 5 Healey Grove Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8RX
Received 26 Jun 199013 Brandwood Park Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0PA
Received 26 Jun 199010 Miles Avenue Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0UB
Received 25 Jun 1990Adjacent To Thornfield House Thornfield Avenue Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9AP
Received 25 Jun 199017-17A St James Square Bacup Lancashire OL13 9NH
Received 25 Jun 199028 Deardengate Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5QJ
Received 25 Jun 199019 Foxwell Close Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6TP
Received 25 Jun 19909 Warren Drive Bacup Lancashire OL13 9SZ
Received 25 Jun 1990Ashtree Thornfield Avenue Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9AP
Received 25 Jun 199079 Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7QX
Received 25 Jun 199021A Highfield Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0LB
Received 25 Jun 1990Higher Old Clough Farm Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8RA
Received 22 Jun 1990East Bank Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 22 Jun 1990Doals Farm Hillside Crescent Weir Bacup Lancashire OL13 8RX
Received 22 Jun 199018 The Close Rising Bridge Accrington Lancashire BB5 2ST
Received 22 Jun 199010 St James Square Bacup Lancashire OL13 9AA
Received 22 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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