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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17,473 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
31 Horncliffe Close Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6EE
Received 22 Aug 2012Site Of Former Acre Mill Acre View Stacksteads Bacup OL13 0HR
Received 15 Aug 2012Land At John Henry Street Shawforth Rossendale
Received 14 Aug 2012Closes Barn Croston Close Ramsbottom Lancashire BL9 6TB
Received 13 Aug 2012The Gatehouse Leabrook Road Rawtenstall Lancashire BB4 8HY
Received 13 Aug 2012Folly House Off Goodshaw Lane Crawshawbooth Rawtenstall BB4 8DW
Received 9 Aug 2012Top O TH Bank Cottage Tunstead Bacup Lancashire OL13 8NL
Received 3 Aug 2012Stables Hud Hey Road Rising Bridge Haslingden BB4 5JL
Received 21 May 2012All Saints RC Language College Haslingden Road Rawtenstall Lancashire BB4 6SJ
Received 18 May 2012Holmewood Hostel Tor View Community Special School Clod Lane Haslingden Rossendale BB4 6LR
Received 21 May 2012Alder Bottom Farm Market Street Edenfield BL0 0QJ
Received 17 May 20121 Fold Head Cottage Hallfold Whitworth OL12 8XL
Received 17 May 201214 Lee Brook Close Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 8ET
Received 11 Jun 2012Holmefield House Holcombe Road Helmshore Rossendale
Received 27 Apr 2012Stubbylee Barn & Adjacent Site Subbylee Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 Ode
Received 10 May 201298 Hollin Way Rawtenstall BB4 8ED
Received 17 Jan 2012Hargreaves Fold Farm Hargreaves Fold Lane Lumb Rossendale BB4 9RU
Received 17 Jan 2012Outside Of 10 Lomas Lane Rawtenstall BB4 6HA
Received 6 Jan 2012Outside Of 14 Burnedge Close Whitworth OL12 8BU
Received 6 Jan 2012North East Of 16 Lord Avenue Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0RY
Received 6 Jan 2012East Of 1-3 Underbank Close Bacup Lancashire OL13 8EN
Received 6 Jan 20128 - 12 Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 8ES
Received 6 Jan 2012Stubbylee Barn & Adjacent Site Subbylee Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 Ode
Received 5 Jan 2012Stubbylee Barn & Adjacent Site Subbylee Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 Ode
Received 5 Jan 2012Records 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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