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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
17,469 approved · 3,275 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
121 & 123 Rochdale Road Ramsbottom Lancashire BL0 0RG
Received 21 Nov 2008227 Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6DJ
Received 21 Nov 2008Unit 1 -3 Knowsley Road Industrial Estate Haslingden BB4 4RR
Received 18 Nov 2008Land To East Side Of 16 Graver Weir Terrace Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale BB4 9QT
Received 17 Nov 2008Land At 507 Holcombe Road Helmshore
Received 10 Nov 2008Land At Alden Road Helmshore
Received 11 Nov 2008Tor View School Clod Lane Haslingden Rossendale BB4 6LR
Received 11 Nov 200819 Powys Close Haslingden Rossendale BB4 6TH
Received 29 Oct 200835 Dearden Fold Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0LH
Received 29 Oct 2008Demain Brock Clough Road Whitewell Bottom Rossendale BB4 9LG
Received 29 Oct 2008Weir Bottom Cottage Weir Bottom Weir Lane Weir Bacup Lancashire OL13 8QB
Received 4 Aug 2011Thorn Primary School Cowtoot Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 8EE
Received 30 Oct 2008Foxhill Lime Tree Grove Rawtenstall BB4 8JB
Received 24 Oct 20086 Baron Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7LF
Received 17 Jun 2008Reddish Hill Farm Market Street Shawforth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8XD
Received 24 Oct 20082 John Street Haslingden Rossendale BB4 5QB
Received 27 Aug 2008The Fishing Lodges Off Commercial Street, Loveclough Rossendale
Received 22 Aug 200820 Newchurch Road Rossendale BB4 7QX
Received 25 Aug 200812 Old School Mews Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0QN
Received 22 Aug 200834 Ventnor Road Haslingden Lancashire BB4 6QP
Received 21 Aug 20084-6 Irwell Street, Bacup, Lancashire OL12 Oad
Received 21 Aug 200857 Long Acres Drive Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8QX
Received 21 Aug 2008Land At Crook Hill Reddyshore Scout Gate Lane Todmorden
Received 18 Aug 2008Huttock Top Farm Newchurch Old Road Bacup OL13 8HS
Received 20 Aug 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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