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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17,473 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
Ivy House Farm Burnley Road Rossendale BB4 8RG
Received 12 Aug 2013Keymer Cottage Flowers Farm Todmorden Road Bacup OL13 8RS
Received 7 Aug 2013147 Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale BB4 9DF
Received 5 Aug 20132 Alder Street Rossendale BB4 7SE
Received 1 Aug 201323 Moorlands View Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0HZ
Received 25 Jul 20131 Ryefield Avenue West Haslingden BB4 4BL
Received 29 Jul 2013Teg Environmental Ltd Sharneyford Works, Bacup Road Todmorden OL14 7JU
Received 18 Jul 2013The Barn/Land Off Sowclough Road Stacksteads Bacup OL13 8LB
Received 1 May 2013The Barn/Land Off Sowclough Road Stacksteads Bacup OL13 8LB
Received 1 May 201369 Booth Road Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9BP
Received 29 Apr 20136 Park Crescent New Line Bacup OL13 9RL
Received 22 Sept 201124 Penny Lodge Lane Loveclough Rossendale BB4 8PD
Received 19 Sept 2011Poultry Houses Back Lane Accrington Lancashire BB5 2RE
Received 12 Sept 2011Crawshaw Hall Medical Centre Burnley Road Crawshawbooth BB4 8LZ
Received 12 Sept 2011Crawshaw Hall Medical Centre Burnley Road Crawshawbooth BB4 8LZ
Received 12 Sept 2011225 & 227 Bacup Road Rawtenstall Lancashire
Received 12 Sept 2011Preesall Poulton-Le-Fylde Lancs
Received 29 Jul 2011Radway Cottage Bonfire Hill Crawshawbooth Rossendale BB4 8TJ
Received 1 Mar 201365/65A Bank Street Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 7QN
Received 15 Feb 2013Land Adjacent To 'Ashfield' Vicarage Lane Haslingden Road Rawtenstall BB4 6QX
Received 15 Feb 2013Balladen Primary Linden Lea Rawtenstall BB4 6DX
Received 11 Feb 2013Land Adjacent 13 Worsley Street Rising Bridge Accrington Lancashire BB5 2SJ
Received 11 Feb 2013Laneside Farm Goodshaw Lane Loveclough Rossendale BB4 8RB
Received 11 Feb 20132-4 Beaconsfield Street Haslingden BB4 5TD
Received 8 Feb 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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