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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
17,466 approved · 3,275 refused · 1,071 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Jun 1973 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 8 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
9 Bankside Close Bacup Lancashire OL13 8HZ
Received 14 May 2008120 Booth Crescent Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9BU
Received 13 May 2008White Horse Hotel Helmshore Road Helmshore Haslingden
Received 14 May 2008Thorn House Farm Pinch Clough Road Rossendale BB4 9RT
Received 7 May 2008Land Adjacent 2 Arbour Street Bacup
Received 1 May 2008Stubbins Vale Mill Stubbins Vale Road BL0 0NT
Received 25 Apr 2008159 Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 7SU
Received 28 Apr 20081 Deerplay Court Weir Bacup Lancashire OL13 8GE
Received 8 Apr 2008Rawtenstall Cricket Club Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7AW
Received 25 Jan 2008112 Jubilee Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4DD
Received 24 Jan 200895 Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7SU
Received 24 Jan 2008Land Off A682,New Hall Hey,Rossendale,
Received 11 Jan 2008Land Opposite 3 Lime Tree Grove
Received 15 Jan 2008Land South Of Victoria Drive Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4DT
Received 4 Jan 2008Clarence Hotel Helmshore Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4DJ
Received 3 Jan 20083 Greenfold Cottages,Off Goodshaw Lane,Crawshawbooth,BB4 8DP
Received 25 Jan 200822 Bowker Street Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL0 0QQ
Received 25 Jan 200821 Hawthorne Meadows Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8BF
Received 24 Jan 20082 Victoria Drive Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4DT
Received 24 Jan 200846 Holmeswood Park Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6HZ
Received 23 Jan 2008Lockgate Farm Haslingden Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6QG
Received 23 Jan 200843 Sandown Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6PL
Received 23 Jan 2008Plot 7,Garage Site,Off Fernhill Drive,Stacksteads,Bacup
Received 23 Jan 2008Copse At Whitworth Water Ski,Off Back Cowm Lane,Tong Lane,Whitworth.
Received 22 Jan 2008Records 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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