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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17,469 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Lloyd Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8AA
Received 24 Apr 199165 Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0QP
Received 22 Apr 19912 Quantock House Bury Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5NX
Received 22 Apr 199111 Billington Avenue Constable Lee Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8UW
Received 23 Apr 199156 Woodcroft Avenue Reeds Holme Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8NF
Received 19 Apr 1991Cob House Nab Croston Close Road Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL9 6TD
Received 19 Apr 1991Unit 4 Bridge Mills Rochdale Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0RE
Received 19 Apr 199115 Hall Fold Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8TT
Received 19 Apr 1991Staghills Childrens Centre Top Barn Lane Newchurch Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7UE
Received 19 Apr 1991Clifton Farm Harrow Stiles Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 8RF
Received 18 Apr 1991Myrtle Grove Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7JA
Received 18 Apr 1991Rakefoot Methodist Church York Street Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8NL
Received 17 Apr 1991Heys Street Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire
Received 16 Apr 1991West End Service Station Haslingden Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6QX
Received 12 Apr 1991West End Service Station Haslingden Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6QX
Received 12 Apr 1991West End Service Station Haslingden Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6QX
Received 12 Apr 199110 Victoria Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5DL
Received 11 Apr 1991Brookfield House Heald Lane Weir Bacup Lancashire OL13 8QZ
Received 11 Apr 19913 Saunders Close Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8LS
Received 11 Apr 199193-95 Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7NW
Received 11 Apr 1991Coupland Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire
Received 10 Apr 1991Rosendale Crescent Bacup Lancashire
Received 11 Apr 1991Cribden Lodge Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6RX
Received 9 Apr 199121 Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8SA
Received 9 Apr 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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