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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17,470 approved · 3,275 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Crawshaw Hall Burnley Road Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8LZ
Received 9 Jan 2008Units 1 & 2 Victoria Parade
Received 8 Jan 200811 Dale Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5SY
Received 4 Jan 20081 Lower Clowes Rossendale BB4 6EN
Received 30 Aug 201124 St James Street Bacuplancashire OL13 9NJ
Received 9 May 200927 Hazel Grove Bacup Lancashire OL13 9XT
Received 5 May 2009Cobland View Rooley Moor Road Stacksteads Lancashire
Received 3 May 200912 Greave Fold Greave Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9EY
Received 27 Mar 200942 Crawshaw Grange Crawshawbooth Rossendale BB4 8LY
Received 27 Mar 2009The South Lodge Stubbins Vale Road Ramsbottom Bury BL0 0NR
Received 27 Mar 200914 Park Crescent Haslingden Rossendale BB4 6PP
Received 26 Mar 20091 Thorneylea Whitworth Rochdale OL12 8QY
Received 26 Mar 20095 Doals Gate Weir Bacup OL13 8JN
Received 24 Mar 2009Sod Hey Farm Harrow Stiles Lane Bacup OL13 8RF
Received 24 Mar 200929 Bury Old Road Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0RY
Received 1 May 200921A Highfield Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0LB
Received 1 May 200916 Hollingreave Drive Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 8EP
Received 30 Apr 200923 Chatburn Close Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 8UT
Received 30 Apr 2009Field Off Gib Hill Lane Rossendale BB4 8TN
Received 29 Apr 2009Nook Of The Brow Farm Hurst Lane Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 8TD
Received 28 Apr 2009Land Off Blackburn Road Edenfield
Received 28 Apr 2009701 Burnley Road East Lumb Rossendale BB4 9PG
Received 25 Sept 20082 Plant Close Farm Croston Close Road Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL9 6TB
Received 25 Sept 2008Land Opposite 150/154 Rising Bridge Road Baxenden
Received 26 Sept 2008Records 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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