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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
17,467 approved · 3,275 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7 Powys Close Haslingden Rossendale BB4 6TH
Received 11 Apr 20085 Pendleton Avenue Constable Lee Rossendale Lancashire BB4 8UX
Received 6 Jun 20085 Gorse Grove Haslingden Lancashire BB4 4JE
Received 5 Jun 200852 Tunstead Crescent Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 0RZ
Received 5 Jun 2008Honey Hole Farm Tunstead Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 8NQ
Received 3 Jun 200818 Yarraville Street Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6BA
Received 2 Jun 2008Bacup Shoe Co Ltd Fall Barn Road Rawtenstall BB4 7QE
Received 27 May 2008Clough Bottom Farm Moor Lane Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5TX
Received 9 May 2008Honey Hole Farm Tunstead Road Stacksteads Bacup Lancashire OL13 8NQ
Received 28 May 2008Orama Mill Hall Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8TL
Received 28 May 2008Mount Pleasant Studd Brow Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8LU
Received 28 May 2008Lane Ends Farm Park Road Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9UE
Received 28 May 2008Moss Meadow Farm,Stubbylee Lane,Bacup,Lancashire, OL13 0DD
Received 26 Mar 2008Former White Horse Inn,136 Edgeside Lane,Waterfoot,BB4 9TR
Received 26 Mar 200852 New Line,Bacup,OL13 9RN
Received 26 Mar 20081 Rushey Close,Rawtenstall,Rossendale,BB4 8AL
Received 26 Mar 200820 Bury Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 6AA
Received 26 Mar 2008Rossendale Transport Ltd Knowsley Park Way Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4RS
Received 30 Jan 2008154 Rising Bridge Road Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 5BH
Received 30 Jan 20081 Broadley View Market Street Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8SA
Received 28 Jan 2008Newchurch Road, Stacksteads, Bacup
Received 29 Jan 2008304-306 Newchurch Road Stacksteads Rossendale OL13 0UJ
Received 25 Jan 2008273 Haslingden Old Road Rawtenstall Rossendale BB4 8RR
Received 25 Jan 2008Site At The Hollies Alden Road Haslingden BB4 4AQ
Received 25 Jan 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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