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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17,468 approved · 3,275 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
2 Alden Close Helmshore Lancashire BB4 4AX
Received 30 Jun 200818 Chapel View Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8FN
Received 30 Jun 2008Dykes Barn Farm,Burnley Road,Bacup,OL13 8RQ
Received 25 Mar 20088 Bonfire Hill Close Crawshawbooth Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8PP
Received 27 Jun 2008Holmefield Lodge Barley Holme Road Crawshawbooth Lancashire BB4 8XA
Received 27 Jun 2008Lower Fairbanks Farm, Goodshaw Fold Road, Loveclough
Received 26 Jun 2008Chatterton Mill Chatterton Road Ramsbottom Bury BL0 0PQ
Received 26 Jun 2008The Bungalow Whitewall Farm Sales Lane Ramsbottom Bury Lancashire BL9 6SX
Received 26 Jun 2008Fearns Moss Bacup OL13 0TG
Received 23 Jun 2008692 Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9PG
Received 25 Jun 20081A Poplar Street Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5LY
Received 20 Jun 2008311 Market Street Shawforth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8HF
Received 20 Jun 200823 Narcissus Avenue Haslingden Lancashire BB4 6LG
Received 20 Jun 20082 Daisy Isle Cottages Tong Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 9XA
Received 19 Jun 2008Freehold Cottage Residential Home 452 Market Street Shawforth Rossendale OL12 8JB
Received 18 Jun 20081189 Burnley Road Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RG
Received 17 Jun 2008Honey Hole Barn Tunstead Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 8NQ
Received 13 Feb 20084 Hargreaves Drive Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8SP
Received 13 Feb 20082A New Hall Hey,Rawtenstall,Rossendale
Received 12 Feb 200815 Market Place Market Street Edenfield Bury Lancashire BL0 0JS
Received 13 Feb 2008101 Goodshaw Avenue North Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8RH
Received 8 Feb 2008Wesley House 4 - 6 Bacup Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7ND
Received 23 Jan 2008Land Off New Hall Hey New Hall Hey Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire
Received 24 Jan 2008Moss Meadow Farm Stubbylee Lane Bacup Lancashire OL13 0DD
Received 7 Feb 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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