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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17,473 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Lee Street Bacup Lancashire
Received 27 Sept 2012Clough Head Barn Dean Lane Dean Bacup Lancashire OL13 8RG
Received 25 Sept 2012Heyslacks Farm Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8QE
Received 21 Sept 2012Glen Valley House 634 Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7AW
Received 17 Sept 2012Plots 17-20 Kandel Place Whitworth Rossendale OL12 8RF
Received 11 Sept 2012139 Mercer Crescent Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4DQ
Received 28 Nov 2012Willows Farm Gib Hill Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale BB4 8TN
Received 27 Nov 2012Land To Rear Of Holly Mount House St Mary's Way Rawtenstall Lancashire
Received 27 Nov 2012The Cabin Goodshaw Lane Stonefold Accrington Lancashire BB5 2DW
Received 21 Nov 2012Barclays Bank 36 Bank Street Rawtenstall BB4 7QW
Received 21 Nov 20121 Laburnum Street Haslingden Rossendale BB4 5DW
Received 21 Nov 2012Hurst Platt Waingate Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 8TA
Received 21 Nov 2012Land Adjacent 368 Rochdale Road Britannia Bacup OL13 9TH
Received 20 Nov 201222A The Moorlands Weir Bacup OL13 8BT
Received 16 Nov 2012Land To The South Of Bury Old Road Shuttleworth Ramsbottom Lancashire
Received 29 Oct 2012Lee Street Bacup Lancashire
Received 29 Oct 20122 Coupland Close Whitworth Rochdale OL12 8QE
Received 26 Oct 2012463 Newchurch Road Rossendale BB4 7TG
Received 26 Oct 201215 Pendleton Avenue Rossendale BB4 8UX
Received 24 Oct 201250 Hyacinth Close Haslingden Rossendale BB4 6JU
Received 24 Oct 2012Land East Of Gowther Fold Farm Britannia Bacup OL13 9XF
Received 3 Oct 201313 Moorland Avenue Whitworth Rossendale OL12 8SX
Received 1 Oct 2013Land To South Side Of Bacup Hub Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8AG
Received 1 Oct 2013Land Adj To Lee Farm Stubbylee Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 0DD
Received 1 Oct 2013Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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