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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
17,470 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Jun 1973 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 3 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Rossford House Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6AG
Received 6 Jun 1991Whitfield Mill Millfold Facit Rochdale Lancashire
Received 6 Jun 19912 Gincroft Lane Edenfield Bury Lancashire
Received 5 Jun 1991Crawshaw Hall Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8LZ
Received 4 Jun 1991Holmeswood Park Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 4 Jun 1991Bentwood Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 4 Jun 1991Thorn Bank Rising Bridge Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB5 2SW
Received 4 Jun 1991Hollingate Farm Rising Bridge Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB5 2SW
Received 28 May 199196 Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8DB
Received 3 Jun 19914 Curven Edge Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4LP
Received 27 May 1991Slate Pit Hill Quarry Bacup Road Todmorden
Received 29 May 1991Fernbank Fernhill Park Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 8JJ
Received 29 May 1991Heath Hill Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0SF
Received 29 May 1991Haworth Footwear Ashworth Street Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire
Received 29 May 19914 Wheatholme Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7PG
Received 27 May 19913 Park Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4NW
Received 24 May 19913 Park Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4NW
Received 24 May 1991Burnley Road East Whitewell Bottom Rossendale Lancashire
Received 24 May 1991Freeholds Mill Market Street Shawforth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8HJ
Received 28 May 1991Irwell House Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire
Received 23 May 1991Roberts Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 23 May 1991Unit 8 New Line Industrial Estate The Sidings Bacup Lancashire OL13 9RW
Received 23 May 1991Ryefield Avenue West Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 23 May 1991The Summer House 4 Deansgrave Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4BZ
Received 23 May 1991Records 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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