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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17,473 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Garage Site William Street Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire
Received 30 Mar 1990Heap Hey Farm Todmorden Old Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8RT
Received 28 Mar 19901 Bury Road & 10 Deardengate Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 28 Mar 1990Land Adjacent To 34 Rakefoot Haslingden
Received 29 Mar 199025 Mitton Avenue Constable Lee Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8UR
Received 22 Mar 1990Rossendale Ground Work Trust Site New Hall Hey Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6HR
Received 26 Mar 1990Thorn Junior School Thorn Street Bacup Lancashire
Received 26 Mar 1990Former Tunstead School Booth Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire
Received 26 Mar 199068 Hoghton Avenue Bacup Lancashire OL13 9RD
Received 23 Mar 19909 Dobbin Close Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7TH
Received 22 Mar 1990Land At Greensnook Lane Bacup Lancashire
Received 22 Mar 1990The Cliffe Stubbins Vale Road Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0NP
Received 22 Mar 1990Syke Mill Fields Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire
Received 21 Mar 1990691-693 Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7HB
Received 21 Mar 1990Globe Mill Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire
Received 21 Mar 199041 Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8SA
Received 21 Mar 19908 Burnside Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0LW
Received 21 Mar 1990602 Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8AJ
Received 20 Mar 199069 Tonacliffe Road Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8SJ
Received 20 Mar 1990576 Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8AJ
Received 2 Jul 1990Higher Carr Farm Hall Carr Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6BS
Received 2 Jul 1990194 Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6DJ
Received 2 Jul 19902 Rooley View Bacup Lancashire OL13 8UY
Received 2 Jul 1990Land Adjacent To 100 Hawthorn Road Bacup Lancashire
Received 4 Jul 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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