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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17,473 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
42 Rising Bridge Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5BL
Received 23 May 19905 Chatburn Close Constable Lee Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8UT
Received 18 May 19905 Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8AA
Received 17 May 1990Clay Royds Farm Royds Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire BB4 7AA
Received 21 May 19903 Priory Close Newchurch Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9HB
Received 21 May 1990Garage Site Off Lyndale Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 21 May 1990Newgate Rochdale Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0RN
Received 18 May 1990Land At Thorn Crescent Bacup Lancashire
Received 22 May 1990Abc Engraving Ltd Water Lane Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0LU
Received 21 May 1990The Royal Hotel Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 21 May 1990Former Whitworth & Shawforth Conservative Club Shawforth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8NU
Received 22 May 1990Land Adjacent To Rose Bank Acre Avenue Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0HL
Received 21 May 199016 Warren Drive Bacup Lancashire OL13 9SZ
Received 17 May 199026 Philips Road Weir Bacup Lancashire OL13 8RH
Received 17 May 1990Land To The Rear Of 233 Edgeside Lane Edgeside Rossendale Lancashire
Received 17 May 1990Land Off New Line Bacup Lancashire OL13 9AY
Received 17 May 1990Bridge Street Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire
Received 14 May 1990Chapel Hill Cottage Hurst Lane Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8TB
Received 14 May 1990Crawshawbooth Motor Repairs Water Street Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8AP
Received 14 May 1990The Valley Weavers Hotel Blackburn Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5QQ
Received 11 May 1990139 Laneside Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6PG
Received 11 May 1990St Veronicas Rc Primary School Raven Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4EZ
Received 11 May 1990Land Off Rochdale Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9SD
Received 11 May 1990Land Off Rochdale Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9SD
Received 11 May 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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