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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
17,468 approved · 3,275 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
1 Musbury Mews Helmshore BB4 4QF
Received 25 Apr 200831 Schofield Road Rawtenstall Lancashire BB4 8RP
Received 8 Jul 2008309 Market Street Shawforth OL12 8HF
Received 8 Jul 200821 Thirlmere Way Crawshawbooth Lancashire BB4 8QE
Received 8 Jul 2008Cobbus Cottage Croston Close Road Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL9 6TD
Received 25 Jun 20087 Brockclough Road Rossendale BB4 9LG
Received 24 Jun 2008Land Off Rochdale Road,Britannia,Bacup,Lancashire
Received 14 Feb 200849 Heys Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5EE
Received 18 Jun 200811 Bankfield Street Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 8LW
Received 18 Jun 2008Caravan Willows Stables Gib Hill Lane Crawshawbooth BB4 8TN
Received 17 Jun 2008Land Off Rochdale Road Britannia Bacup Lancashire
Received 21 Jul 2008Land Off A682 Bypass New Hall Hey Rawtenstall Rossendale
Received 18 Jul 2008Swinnel Brook Park Residential Caravan Site Holden Mill Grane Road Haslingden Rossendale .
Received 18 Jul 2008Baxenden Chemicals Paragon Works Baxenden BB5 2SL
Received 16 Jul 2008Not Confirmed
Received 5 Mar 2008Lower Fairbanks Farm Goodshaw Fold Road Loveclough BB48UF
Received 31 Mar 200816 Dalesford Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6QH
Received 31 Mar 200871 Booth Road Waterfoot Rossendale BB4 9BP
Received 31 Mar 200822 Dobbin Close Cloughfold Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7TH
Received 31 Mar 2008Holchem Laboratories,Premier House,175 Grane Road,Haslingden BB4 5ER
Received 31 Mar 2008Unit 8 Spodden Mill Station Road Facit Rochale OL12 8LJ
Received 1 Apr 2008Site Of Former Tongbridge Mill,Reed Street,Bacup,OL13 9BG
Received 31 Mar 200823 Woodcroft Street Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8LG
Received 31 Mar 2008Barn At Hargreaves Fold Farm North Hargreaves Fold Lane Lumb Rossendale BB4 9RU
Received 31 Mar 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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