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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
17,473 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Jun 1973 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 5 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Adj 4 East View Shawforth Rossendale OL12 8NT
Received 12 Dec 201210 Kings Avenue Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6AP
Received 10 Dec 2012Shuttleworth Veterinary Group 209A Bacup Road Rossendale BB4 7PA
Received 10 Dec 2012Multicrete Products Ltd Units 1 & 2 Commerce St Carrs Industrial Estate Haslingden Lancs BB4 5JT
Received 25 Oct 2011Top Oth Bank Cottage Maden Road Tunstead Bacup OL13 8NL
Received 7 Feb 2013Land Adjacent To Top Oth Bank Cottage Maden Road Tunstead Bacup OL13 8NL
Received 7 Feb 2013Lee Street Bacup Lancashire
Received 6 Feb 20136 Hazel Grove Bacup Lancashire OL13 9XT
Received 14 Aug 201210 Regent Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5HQ
Received 10 Aug 2012Land Adjacent To 'Ashfield' Vicarage Lane Haslingden Road Rawtenstall BB4 6QX
Received 10 Aug 201243 Gincroft Lane Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0JW
Received 8 Aug 2012463 Newchurch Road Rossendale BB4 7TG
Received 6 Aug 201215 Hoghton Avenue Bacup OL13 9RD
Received 6 Aug 201237 Burnley Road Rossendale BB4 8EW
Received 1 Aug 2012Scrap Yard 232 Dean Lane Water Rossendale BB4 9RB
Received 1 Feb 2011Ivy House Farm Burnley Road Rossendale BB4 8RG
Received 31 Jul 201216 Zion Street Bacup OL13 9LT
Received 31 Jul 2012Heald Top Farm Todmorden Old Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8RU
Received 30 Jul 20121 West View Stacksteads Bacup OL13 0NX
Received 30 Jul 2012Grane Road Mill Grane Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5ET
Received 30 Jul 2012Sod Hey Farm Bacup Old Road Weir Bacup OL13 8RF
Received 12 Sept 2013New Mansion House Goodshawfold Road Crawshawbooth BB4 8QS
Received 4 Sept 201319 Warwick Street Haslingden BB4 5LR
Received 22 Aug 20139 Springbank Gardens Crawshawbooth BB4 8UH
Received 15 Aug 2013Records 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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