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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17,473 approved · 3,274 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
High Valley Stables Conway Road Higher Cloughfold Rawtenstall
Received 24 Feb 2012110 Bury Road Edenfield BL0 0ET
Received 21 Feb 2012Village Pine Newchurch Road Bacup OL13 0NZ
Received 20 Feb 20121 Colldale Terrace Haslingden BB4 6NY
Received 20 Feb 2012Mitchell Field Nook Farm Mitchell Field Nook Tunstead Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 8NJ
Received 20 Mar 2013Land At Newchurch Road Stacksteads
Received 20 Mar 2013Shell Rising Bridge Blackburn Road Rising Bridge Accrington BB5 2SB
Received 20 Mar 20136 Lobden Crescent Whitworth Nr Rochdale OL12 8PU
Received 20 Mar 2013Sheep House Farm Higher Greens Greens Lane Stacksteads Bacup OL13 0JS
Received 13 Mar 2013Land Adjacent Top Oth Bank Cottage Maden Road Tunstead Bacup OL13 8NL
Received 11 Mar 2013Land North Of Holme Bridge New Hall Hey Road Rawtenstall
Received 4 Mar 2013Height Side Farm Todmorden Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9UG
Received 26 Feb 2013Clarence Hotel Helmshore Road Haslingden BB4 4DJ
Received 26 Feb 20133 Thirlmere Way Loveclough Lancashire BB4 8QE
Received 26 Feb 201323 Broadway Haslingden Rossendale BB4 4HB
Received 26 Feb 20136 Parklands Park Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6PE
Received 26 Feb 201313 Blackthorn Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 8EB
Received 26 Feb 2013Lower Pike Law Farm Haslingden Road Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6ND
Received 26 Feb 2013177 Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 7SU
Received 17 Apr 2013Folly Bank House Goodshaw Lane Crawshawbooth Rossendale BB4 8DL
Received 16 Apr 2013Land Adjacent To Deansgreave New Line Bacup OL13 9RX
Received 10 Apr 20131382 Burnley Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 8RG
Received 5 Apr 20132 Pinchclough Off Burnley Road East Lumb Rossendale BB4 9RT
Received 21 Nov 2011Rawtenstall Valley Shopping Centre & Astoria Hall Rawtenstall
Received 17 Nov 2011Records 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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