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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17,470 approved · 3,275 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 21 Apr 200816 Heycrofts View Edenfield Lancashire BL0 0HG
Received 21 Apr 200814 Sunnybank Helmshore Rossendale BB4 4PF
Received 21 Apr 20083 Myrtle Grove Haslingden Lancashire BB4 4DE
Received 11 Apr 200818 - 20 Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6AA
Received 14 Apr 20089 Private Lane Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6LX
Received 16 Jun 2008767 Market Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8LS
Received 13 Jun 200838 Holden Wood Drive Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4RQ
Received 4 Jan 200887 Booth Crescent Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9BU
Received 4 Jan 20085-7 St James Square Bacup Lancashire OL13 9NH
Received 20 Dec 2007Bacup Leisure Centre Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire
Received 24 Dec 20071 Church Court Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0QD
Received 24 Dec 2007Land To The Rear Of Holly Mount House, St Mary's Way, Rawtenstall, Rossendale.
Received 24 Dec 2007Land Off Lee Road,Stacksteads,Rossendale.
Received 21 Dec 2007Former Accrington & Rawtenstall College Site Haslingden Road Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 24 Dec 2007Irish Democratic Club George Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5RX
Received 20 Dec 2007Plot 43 Hollin Way Reeds Holme Rossendale Lancashire
Received 18 Dec 2007Jack Lodge Coal Pit Lane Whitewell Bottom Rossendale Lancashire
Received 18 Dec 20075 Mount Pleasant Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6RT
Received 18 Dec 2007Mountspring Works Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9LA
Received 18 Dec 2007274 Todmorden Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9UX
Received 18 Dec 2007216 New Line Bacup Lancashire OL13 9RX
Received 31 Jan 2008265 Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RR
Received 31 Jan 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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