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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17,470 approved · 3,275 refused · 1,071 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Jun 1973 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 7 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
58 Bank Street Rawtenstall Lancs
Received 18 Jan 2010Under Brow Farm Cribden Side Haslingden Rossendale BB4 5UD
Received 15 Jan 2010Clough Bottom Farm Moor Lane Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5TX
Received 15 Jan 20106 Baron Street Rossendale BB4 7LF
Received 12 Jan 2010Green Head Farm Burnley Road Weir Rossendale Lancs OL13 8RB
Received 8 Jan 2010Hillside Nursery School Cedar Avenue Haslingden BB4 5NH
Received 7 Jan 20103-5 Deer Street Weir Bacup Lancashire
Received 18 Dec 2009Alder Grange Community & Technology School Calder Road Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8HW
Received 18 Dec 2009269 Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 8LA
Received 14 Dec 200927 Rochdale Road Edenfield Ramsbottom Bury Lancs BL0 0JT
Received 12 Jan 2010Meadow 1420 Heightside Lane Crawshawbooth Rawtenstall Lancs BB4 8TH
Received 7 Jul 2009Yonne Cottage Higher Lane Haslingden Lancashire BB4 5UD
Received 3 Jul 200927 Helmshore Road Haslingden BB4 4BG
Received 1 Jul 2009230 Bacup Road Rawtenstall Lancashire BB4 7PA
Received 1 Jul 20096 Alden Close Helmshore Lancs BB4 4AX
Received 1 Jul 2009Land At Lambton Gates Cloughfold Rawtenstall Lancashire
Received 1 Jul 2009Acre Hill Cottage Edgeside Lane Rossendale BB4 9SD
Received 1 Jul 20098 St. James Square Bacup Lancs OL13 9AA
Received 30 Jun 200933 Whittle Street Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 8SB
Received 29 Jun 2009Land At St Georges Cottage Boarsgreave Cowpe, Rossendale Lancashire
Received 28 Jun 200910 Musbury View Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4PH
Received 28 Jun 2009Deansford (Formerly Cherry Tree) Dean Road Haslingden
Received 25 Jun 20095 Glenborough Avenue Stacksteads Bacup
Received 25 Jun 2009Glengarrif Highgate Lane Whitworth Rochdale OL12 8SL
Received 25 Jun 2009Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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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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