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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17,473 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
225/227 Bacup Road Rawtenstall Lancashire
Received 14 Apr 2011V.BS Ltd Canberra Building Carrs Industrial Estate Commerce Street Haslingden BB4 5JT
Received 14 Apr 2011Side Garden Of 214 Burnley Road Weir Lancashire OL13 8QE
Received 14 Apr 2011High Valley Stables Conway Road Higher Cloughfold Rawtenstall
Received 14 Apr 2011200 Cockhall Lane Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8BQ
Received 14 Apr 2011New Barn Farm Chapel Hill Lane Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8TD
Received 5 Apr 20113 The Stables West View Tong Lane Britannia Bacup
Received 1 Apr 2011Pleasant View Farm Helmshore Road Holcombe Bury Lancashire BL8 4PQ
Received 30 Mar 20111 Hollingreave Drive Rawtenstall BB4 8EP
Received 24 Feb 2011Glen Top Works Newchurch Road Stacksteads OL13 Onh
Received 23 Feb 2011Windy Harbour Farm Cob Castle Road Haslingden Rossendale
Received 22 Feb 2011Hargreaves Fold Farm North Hargreaves Fold Lane Lumb Rossendale BB4 9RU
Received 7 Sept 2010Laneside Farm Goodshaw Lane Loveclough Rossendale BB4 8RB
Received 20 Aug 2010Fishrake Farm Fishrake Lane Rossendale BB4 7AH
Received 17 Aug 20101 Vale Mill Court Burnley Road Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0GY
Received 19 Nov 2010Land Adjacent Carr Farm Lomas Lane Rawtenstall
Received 17 Nov 2010617 Burnley Road Rossendale BB4 8AN
Received 11 Nov 2010451 Helmshore Road Helmshore Rossendale BB4 4JR
Received 8 Nov 201033 Highfield Road Edenfield Bury BL0 0LF
Received 8 Nov 2010Land To Rear Of Back Lane Rising Bridge Accrington BB4 2SE
Received 5 Nov 2010Lee Farm Stubbylee Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 0DD
Received 5 Nov 2010Land To Rear Of Elizabeth Street Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9LW
Received 5 Nov 2010325 Market Street Shawforth Rossendale Lancashire OL12 8HN
Received 1 Nov 2010624 Stotts Building Bacup Road Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7AW
Received 1 Nov 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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