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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
17,470 approved · 3,275 refused · 1,071 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Jun 1973 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 7 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Stonefold St John's Ce School Rising Bridge Accrington BB5 2SW
Received 4 Mar 2011Haslingden Sports Centre Helmshore Road Haslingden
Received 14 Feb 201128 Bury Road Rawtenstall Lancashire BB4 6AA
Received 11 Apr 201110 Meadowcroft Close Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8DF
Received 11 Apr 20117 Clayton Avenue Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6EW
Received 8 Apr 2011Solomon Commercials Ltd Kingsway Haslingden BB4 4QJ
Received 4 Apr 201132 Eden Avenue Edenfield BL0 0LD
Received 18 Mar 201111 Bond Street Edenfield Ramsbottom Bury BL0 0EW
Received 17 Mar 2011Lockgate Farm Haslingden Road Rossendale
Received 18 Mar 2011Belmont School Cloughfold Peel Street Cloughfold Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 7LJ
Received 17 Mar 2011Metso Paper Limited Manchester Road Haslingden Rossendale BB4 5SL
Received 17 Mar 2011Land Adj 558 Market Street Whitworth OL12 8JW
Received 15 Mar 20111158 Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9QR
Received 16 Mar 2011239 Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 7PA
Received 16 Mar 2011Hargreaves Fold Farm North Hargreaves Fold Lane Lumb Rossendale BB4 9RU
Received 29 Sept 201023 Manchester Road Haslingden BB4 5SL
Received 24 Sept 2010Crawshaw Hall Barn Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 8LW
Received 17 Sept 2010The Old Rectory Dobbin Lane Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7TE
Received 20 Sept 20101 Hollingreave Drive Rawtenstall BB4 8EP
Received 28 Sept 20103 Mount Pleasant Rawtenstall Lancashire BB4 6RT
Received 22 Jan 2010St John With St Michael School Moss Side Street Shawforth OL12 8EP
Received 22 Sept 2010Plot 179 Rochdale Rd Britannia Bacup
Received 17 Sept 2010394 Market Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8QL
Received 15 Sept 2010Land At Pleasant View Farm Helmshore Road Bury BL8 4PQ
Received 14 Sept 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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