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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17,473 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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: 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
271 Holcombe Road Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4NP
Received 10 May 2011Land At Broadclough Farm Burnley Road Bacup
Received 10 May 2011Old George And Dragon 14 Stonefold Rising Bridge Rossendale Lancashire BB5 2DP
Received 10 May 2011Old George And Dragon 14 Stonefold Rising Bridge Rossendale Lancashire BB5 2DP
Received 10 May 201148 Schofield Road Rawtenstall Lancashire BB4 8RP
Received 10 May 201162 Kingston Crescent Helmshore Lancashire BB4 4LH
Received 4 May 201145B Bank Street Rawtenstall BB4 7QN
Received 3 May 201114 Sunny Bank Road Helmshore Rossendale BB4 4PF
Received 28 Apr 201117 St James Square Bacup Lancashire OL13 9NH
Received 14 Mar 2011220 Helmshore Road Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4DJ
Received 15 Mar 2011Rockcliffe Farm Pennine Road Bacup OL13 9PZ
Received 2 Mar 2011Plot 8 Land At East Parade/Higher Mill Street Rawtenstall
Received 21 Feb 201132 Wallbank Drive Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8UN
Received 28 Apr 20111A Rochdale Road Ramsbottom Bolton Lancashire BL0 0JT
Received 27 Mar 2013Springfield Court Bacup OL13 9DH
Received 25 Mar 2013Parrock Farm Todmorden Road Bacup OL13 9UF
Received 18 Mar 201312 Spring Street Crawshawbooth Rossendale BB4 8BP
Received 18 Mar 2013Land To West Of A682 At Loveclough And To Immediate South-West Of The Municipal Recreation Ground
Received 11 Mar 20134 Grange Park Way Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4QE
Received 18 Mar 2013Land Adj To 14 Park Avenue, Haslingden, Rossendale, BB4 6PP
Received 6 Mar 20134 Hurst Crescent Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 7SX
Received 6 Mar 20131 Powys Close Haslingden Rossendale BB4 6TH
Received 6 Mar 2013Moorgate Tong Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 9JQ
Received 28 Jan 2013Land At Highfield Park Haslingden Lancashire
Received 28 Jan 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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