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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
17,469 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
26 Pinfold Lane Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0HZ
Received 14 May 1991Land Off Thorneylea Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8QY
Received 14 May 1991Land Off New Line Bacup Lancashire OL13 9RU
Received 14 May 1991458 Market Street Shawforth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8JB
Received 13 May 199114 Wiswell Close Constable Lee Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8HQ
Received 13 May 1991Rossendale Groundwork Site New Hall Hey Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 13 May 199112 Fernhill Crescent Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 8JU
Received 10 May 1991Higher Deerplay Farm Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8RD
Received 10 May 1991The Petrol Station Market Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 0AZ
Received 10 May 19918 Anderton Close Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7DW
Received 10 May 1991Bull Hall Barn Todmorden Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9TY
Received 9 May 1991Under Brow Farm Laund Lane Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5UB
Received 22 May 1991Tom Lane Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire
Received 9 May 19916 Wheatholme Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7PG
Received 9 May 19914 Hawthorn Avenue Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0EY
Received 7 May 1991Holmeswood Park Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 8 May 1991Green Hill Farm Bamford Road Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0RT
Received 7 May 1991Green Hill Farm Bamford Road Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0RT
Received 7 May 1991139 Market Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8SE
Received 7 May 1991The Bungalow Michael Wife Lane Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0RD
Received 7 May 1991Higher Red Lees Bungalow Helmshore Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BL8 4PE
Received 7 May 1991Prickshaw Lane/Broadley Fold Rochdale
Received 7 May 1991Goodshaw Baptist Church Goodshaw Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire
Received 7 May 1991Goodshaw Baptist Church Goodshaw Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire
Received 7 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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