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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17,473 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bee House Healey Dell Rochdale OL12 6BG
Received 22 Nov 201045 Oak Street Shawforth Rochdale OL12 8NP
Received 19 Nov 2010Land To Rear Of Holly Mount House St Mary's Way Rawtenstall Lancashire
Received 17 Jan 2011Brow Edge Healey Stones Whitworth Rossendale Lancashire OL12 0TT
Received 18 Jan 20119 Warwick Street Haslingden Lancashire BB4 5LR
Received 17 Jan 2011Land At Bridge End Close Helmshore
Received 5 Jul 2010Brandwood Lower End Moor Bacup
Received 8 Jun 2010Height End Farm Kirk Hill Road Haslingden Rossendale BB4 8TZ
Received 29 Jul 20105 Station Court Bacup OL13 9PS
Received 29 Jul 2010Haslingden St James Ce School Regent Street Haslingden BB4 5HL
Received 28 Jul 201027 Holden Wood Drive Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4RQ
Received 27 Jul 201038 Kirkhill Avenue Haslingden Rossendale BB4 6UB
Received 26 Jul 2010Swinshaw Coach House Goodshaw Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale BB4 8RB
Received 23 Jul 201027 Holden Wood Drive Haslingden BB4 4RQ
Received 30 Jun 2010Carter Hall Stables Carter Hall Park Haslingden BB4 5BQ
Received 24 Jun 2010221 Bacup Road Rawtenstall, Rossendale, Lancashire, BB4 7PA
Received 17 Jun 2009Plot Number 12 Adjacent To 33 Park Road Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9BW
Received 8 Jun 20092 Hollin Grove Rawtenstall BB4 8HU
Received 1 Sept 2009Carterplace Cottage Hall Park Haslingden Rossendale BB4 5BQ
Received 2 Sept 2009Rink Bakery Herbert Street Stacksteads Bacup Rossendale OL13 0TY
Received 17 Jan 2011Lee Street Bacup Lancashire
Received 11 Jan 20117 Greens Lane Bacup OL13 0JL
Received 7 Jan 201135 Lyndale Villa, Lyndale Avenue, Haslingden, Rossendale, BB4 4BP
Received 21 Dec 2010Vacant Land Adjoining 4 Parkinson Street Haslingden Rossendale BB4 5DR
Received 21 Dec 2010Records 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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