Understanding planning · 13 min read
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17,470 approved · 3,275 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7 Dorset Drive Haslingden BB4 4HQ
Received 5 Aug 20109 Brandwood Park Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0PA
Received 10 Mar 20104 Pendle Avenue Bacup Lancashire OL13 9DW
Received 9 Mar 2010Lower Barn Clough End Road Haslingden Rossendale BB4 5AN
Received 4 Mar 2010Deansford (Formerly Cherry Tree) Dean Road Haslingden
Received 4 Mar 2010Health Centre Pharmacy Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 7NU
Received 4 Mar 201083 Bacup Road Rawtenstall BB4 7QL
Received 17 Feb 2010Higher Trough Farm Eagley Bank Shawforth Rochdale Lancs OL12 8XE
Received 17 Feb 20107 Abbotts Close Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancs BB4 8JX
Received 17 Feb 2010Land Off Rockcliffe Road Grafton Villas Bacup
Received 16 Feb 2010Fish Tenement Barn Off Grane Road Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4PD
Received 22 Feb 2010Kearns Mill Cowpe Road Cowpe Waterfoot
Received 16 Feb 2010Lower Fold Cowpe Rossendale Lancs
Received 15 Feb 2010Lower Fold Cowpe Rossendale Lancs
Received 15 Feb 2010Lower Fold Cowpe Rossendale Lancs
Received 15 Feb 2010Dellside Station Road Whitworth Rossendale OL12 8RT
Received 15 Feb 2010End Cottage Tippett Farm Cowpe BB4 7AE
Received 15 Feb 20104 Pioneer Buildings Rochdale Road Bacup Lancs OL13 9NZ
Received 12 Feb 201043 Poplar Street, Haslingden, Rossendale, BB4 5LY
Received 16 Sept 2009Grounds Of St Johns Church And Land At Crawshaw Grange Crawshawbooth Rossendale
Received 7 Aug 2009Plots 2 & 3, Site G55 Rear Of 33 Whittle Street Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 8SB
Received 15 Sept 2009234 Rochdale Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9RA
Received 11 Sept 2009Broadway Primary School Haslingden Rossendale
Received 9 Sept 2009Edenfield Primary School Market Street Edenfield
Received 9 Sept 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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