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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17,470 approved · 3,275 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
5 Mount Pleasant Plantation Street Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0RH
Received 12 Feb 2008Tooter Cottage Sliven Clod Road Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8UG
Received 8 Jan 2008KFC New Hall Hey Rawtenstall
Received 11 Jul 2008523 Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9LQ
Received 14 Mar 2008617 Burnley Road Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8AN
Received 23 Jan 20081 Lower Clowes Lower Clowes Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6EN
Received 3 Jan 200818 Park Street Well Bank Haslingden Lancashire BB4 5TF
Received 26 Jun 2008The Old Vicarage Chatterton Road Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0PQ
Received 13 May 20082 Roundhill View Haslingden Lancashire BB5 2SS
Received 1 Apr 2008Hey Head Farm Rochdale Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9XF
Received 1 Feb 200816 Flip Road Haslingden Rossendale BB4 5ET
Received 15 Oct 200877 Booth Road Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9BP
Received 12 Jun 2008Holden Mill House Grane Road Haslingden BB4 4PL
Received 12 Jun 2008Euro Services Blackburn Road Haslingden BB4 5QG
Received 11 Jun 2008Swan Hotel 94 Market Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 0AY
Received 11 Jun 2008Quicks Haulage,Atherton Way,Taylor Home Ind Est,Stacksteads Bacup,OL13 0LE
Received 11 Jun 2008St Mary's Primary School, Haslingden Old Road, Rawtenstall
Received 5 Jun 200827 Helmshore Road Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4BG
Received 2 Jun 2008Land Adjacent To Longacres House,Longacres Drive,Whitworth, OL12 8JJ
Received 29 May 2008Honey Hole Farm Tunstead Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 8NQ
Received 30 May 2008Glenfield 2 Hey Head Avenue Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9BS
Received 28 Jan 2008Spring Hill Cottage Dean Lane Water Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9RB
Received 20 May 200830 Kingston Crescent Haslingden Lancashire BB4 4LH
Received 12 May 2008Arran 10 Victoria Street Whitworth OL12 8PL
Received 12 May 2008Records 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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