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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17,470 approved · 3,275 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Clayton Avenue Rawtenstall BB4 6EW
Received 1 Jul 2010New Hey Mill Newchurch Road Bacup 0L13 0BH
Received 1 Jul 2010Ta Top Farm Goodshaw Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale BB4 8TN
Received 21 Jun 201014 Wood Bank Sunnybank Road Helmshore Rossendale BB4 4NA
Received 21 Jun 2010Tesco Store Rawtenstall Bury Road Off Bochalt Way Rawtenstall BB4 6DT
Received 7 Jun 2010Top Of The Shore Farm Shore End Whitworth Rochdale OL12 8JA
Received 3 Jun 2010Top Of The Shore Farm Shore End Whitworth Rochdale OL12 8JA
Received 3 Jun 2010283 Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 8LA
Received 1 Jun 2010Langwood Haslingden Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6SH
Received 2 Jun 2010Higher Deerplay Farm Burnley Road Bacup Lancs OL13 8RD
Received 28 Jan 2010Springside Folley Higher Red Lees Helmshore Road Bury BL8 4PE
Received 28 Jan 20102 Rising Bridge Road, Haslingden, Rossendale, BB4 5BL
Received 27 Jan 2010Baxenden Chemicals Paragon Works Baxenden BB5 2SL
Received 25 Jan 2010Land At Lambton Gates Cloughfold Rawtenstall Lancashire
Received 25 Jan 2010Makingate Barn Cribdenside Haslingden BB4 5UB
Received 25 Jan 20108 Fairview Crescent Bacup OL13 9LL
Received 17 Dec 20093-5 Deer Street Weir Bacup Lancashire
Received 12 Dec 2009Swinnel Brook Park Grane Road Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4FN
Received 11 Dec 200933 Rochdale Road Edenfield Ramsbottom BL0 0JT
Received 26 Jan 2010Hoyle Dean Farm Coal Pit Lane Rossendale BB4 9SA
Received 26 Jan 2010Land To Rear Of 7 Dobbin Lane Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7TA
Received 20 Jan 2010Roundabout -Junction Of Manchester Road/Haslingden Road Rawtenstall
Received 21 Jan 201023 Osborne Way Helmshore Rossendale BB4 4DZ
Received 21 Jan 2010Trickling Water Barn Great House Avenue Helmshore Rossendale BB4 4AL
Received 19 Jan 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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