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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17,473 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Cobland View Rooley Moor Road Stacksteads Lancashire
Received 29 Mar 20103 Swinshaw Cottages Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RA
Received 26 Mar 20106 Store Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5TH
Received 26 Mar 2010Land To Side Of Merry Trees 49 Fallbarn Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 4PZ
Received 8 Dec 2009Plantation House Dobbin Lane Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7TE
Received 8 Dec 2009Browedge Quarry Rawtenstall
Received 7 Dec 20097 Greenmount Greens Lane Bacup Rossendale OL13 0JL
Received 6 Dec 20095 Ullswater Way Loveclough Rossendale
Received 3 Dec 200919 Barritt Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 8SR
Received 2 Dec 200951 Bankside Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 8HJ
Received 2 Dec 2009Crawshawbooth Primary School Burnley Road Crawshawbooth Rossendale
Received 1 Dec 2009Land Off Rochdale Road,Britannia,Bacup,Lancashire
Received 30 Nov 200926 Rising Bridge Road, Rising Bridge, Lancashire, BB4 5BL
Received 30 Nov 2009Sod Hey Farm Bacup Old Road Weir Bacup OL13 8RF
Received 30 Nov 2009St Saviours Primary School Lane End Road Bacup
Received 1 Dec 2009Pendle Financial Planning 457 Bacup Road Watefoot BB4 7JJ
Received 26 Nov 200916 Turton Hollow Road Crawshawbooth Rossendale BB4 8BG
Received 26 Nov 20098 - 9 St Georges Terrace Boarsgreave Lane Cowpe Rossendale BB4 7AD
Received 26 Nov 2009Crook Hill Wind Farm Reddyshore Scout Gate Walsden Todmorden
Received 27 Apr 201115 Andrew Avenue Rawtenstall Lancashire BB4 6EU
Received 27 Apr 20112 Tonacliffe Way Whitworth Lancashire OL12 8SN
Received 27 Apr 2011Unit A3 New Hall Hey Road Rossendale BB4 6AJ
Received 27 Apr 2011Edenfield Conservative Club Market Street Edenfield BL0 0JL
Received 26 Apr 2011Oakenclough Farm Oakenclough Road Bacup Lancashire
Received 21 Jun 2011Records 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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