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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17,470 approved · 3,275 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
3 Honey Hole Barn Honey Hole Tunstead Bacup OL13 8NQ
Received 29 Jan 20115 Ullswater Way Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8QD
Received 31 Jan 201118 Woodside Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6QQ
Received 24 Jan 2011Cowm Farm Oak Street Whitworth OL12 8NP
Received 19 Jul 201062 Gladstone Street Bacup OL13 9JN
Received 19 Jul 2010Land Opposite 449- 457 Bacup Road Hareholme, BB4 7JJ
Received 12 Jul 2010The Fishing Lodges Off Commercial Street, Loveclough Rossendale
Received 29 Jun 201092 Burnley Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0HW
Received 21 Jun 2010Albion Mill Bacup Road Rawtenstall Lancs BB4 7PL
Received 16 Jun 2010C0 0P Supermarket 5 Irwell Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 0AD
Received 12 May 200916 Zion Street Bacup OL13 9LT
Received 21 Jul 2009Ashworth Farms Ltd Unit 8 Scout Bottom Industrial Estate Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale BB4 9JR
Received 17 Jul 2009Ashworth Farms Ltd Unit 8 Scout Bottom Industrial Estate Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale BB4 9JR
Received 17 Jul 20097 Mount Pleasant Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6RT
Received 17 Jul 2009Land Off Free Lane Helmshore Rossendale BB4 7AE
Received 10 Aug 2010Balladen Children Centre, Balladen Primary School Linden Lea Rawtenstall
Received 10 Aug 2010Whitworth Quarry Complex, (Britannia, Facit & Lee Quarries)
Received 10 Aug 2010Lockgate Farm Haslingden Road Rossendale
Received 10 Aug 2010Lawnswood Haslingden Old Road Rossendale BB4 8RS
Received 10 Aug 2010Ravenshore Barn Off Holcombe Road Helmshore Lancs
Received 6 Aug 2010Land Behind 292 Blackburn Road Haslingden Rossendale BB4 5JF
Received 30 Jul 20104 Pioneer Buildings Rochdale Road Bacup Lancs OL13 9NZ
Received 6 Jul 20104 Pioneer Buildings Rochdale Road Bacup Lancs OL13 9NZ
Received 6 Jul 20108 Barritt Road,Rawtenstall,Lancashire,BB4 8SR
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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