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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17,470 approved · 3,275 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
226 Newchurch Road, Rossendale, Lancashire, BB4 7QX
Received 24 Dec 2010Herbert Street And Farholme Lane In Stacksteads
Received 23 Dec 2010Crawshaw Hall Nursing Home Burnley Road Crawshawbooth Rossendale BB4 8LZ
Received 23 Dec 2010Crawshaw Hall Nursing Home Burnley Road Crawshawbooth Rossendale BB4 8LZ
Received 23 Dec 2010Top Of The Shore Farm Shore End Whitworth Rochdale OL12 8JA
Received 5 Jul 201013 Middlegate Green Loveclough Rossendale BB4 8PY
Received 4 Aug 2010Pendle Avenue Bacup
Received 4 Aug 2010Adjacent To No 2 Heritage Drive Marl Pits Rawtenstall BB4 7SJ
Received 2 Aug 201017 The Crescent Hall Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8TN
Received 21 Jul 20101 Charles Lane Haslingden Rossendale
Received 14 Jul 2010Lynns Court Beaufort Road Weir Bacup OL13 8RL
Received 14 Jul 2010Land At Marl Pits Adjacent The Top Rugby/Football Pitch Rawtenstall Lancashire
Received 17 Jun 2010Moorgate Tong Lane Bacup OL13 9JQ
Received 17 Jun 201039 Robert Street Ramsbottom Bury BL0 0NQ
Received 17 Jun 2010St Peters Avenue Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4BS
Received 14 Jun 2010The Gate Lodge 82 Bacup Road Rawtenstall BB4 7NW
Received 14 Jun 2010Alden Wood Alden Road Helmshore
Received 14 Jun 2010Church Of St Saviour New Line Bacup Lancs OL13 0BY
Received 9 Jun 2010Lower Wheat Head Barn Walls Clough Rossendale
Received 9 Jun 2010Haslingden Primary School Ryefield Avenue Haslingden Rossendale
Received 20 Jul 2010276 Market Street Whitworth Rossendale OL12 8QJ
Received 12 Feb 2010Lane Ends Farm Park Road Waterfoot Rossendale Lancs BB4 9UE
Received 11 Feb 201010/10A New Hall Hey Business Centre Rawtenstall Lancs BB4 6HL
Received 10 Feb 2010353 Rochdale Road Britannia Bacup Lancs OL13 9TW
Received 10 Feb 2010Records 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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