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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17,468 approved · 3,275 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Stables Close Reedsholme
Received 17 Mar 2009Bacup & Rawtenstall Grammar School Glen Road Waterfoot Rossendale BB4 7BJ
Received 3 Oct 2008120 Booth Crescent Rawtenstall Lancashire BB4 9BU
Received 3 Oct 2008200 Cockhall Lane Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8BQ
Received 30 Sept 200836 Phillips Road Bacup OL13 8RH
Received 19 Sept 2008Land Adjacent The Black Bull Blackburn Road Haslingden BB4 5QQ
Received 22 Sept 2008Crawshaw Hall Lodge Burnley Road Rossendale BB4 8LZ
Received 26 Sept 2008225/227 Bacup Road Rawtenstall Lancashire
Received 22 Sept 2008Land Adj. Former Cross Farm Higher Cloughfold Rawtenstall
Received 20 Sept 2008Frankie & Benny's Unit C1 New Hall Hey Rawtenstall
Received 15 Sept 2008Old Clough Stables Old Clough Weir Bacup OL13 8RA
Received 15 Sept 2008Land Adjoining The Sportsmans Public House Market Street Whitworth
Received 8 Sept 2008Buckhurst Farm Buckhurst Road Bury BL9 6SZ
Received 5 Sept 2008Unit A3 New Hall Hey Road Rossendale BB4 6AJ
Received 4 Sept 2008The Linney Cowpe Road Waterfoot Rossendale
Received 4 Sept 2008Land Adjoining Rising Bridge Inn Blackburn Road Haslingden BB5 2SN
Received 1 Sept 20082 Beaumaris Close,Haslingden,Lancashire,BB4 6TJ
Received 25 Aug 2008Tentering Tower Via Stubbins Street Ramsbottom Rossendale
Received 3 Sept 200818 Shaw Clough Road Whitewell Bottom Rossendale BB4 9JZ
Received 29 Aug 2008Farm Hill Farm Edgeside Lane Edgeside BB4 9TZ
Received 29 Aug 200835 Gregory Fold Helmshore Rossendale BB4 4JW
Received 28 Aug 200816 Shaw Clough Road Rossendale BB4 9JZ
Received 18 Aug 200832 Hyacinth Close Haslingden Rossendale BB4 6JU
Received 27 Aug 2008Land On North West Side Of Sand Beds Lane Edenfield Ramsbottom
Received 12 May 2008Records 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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