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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17,467 approved · 3,275 refused · 1,071 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Tentering Tower Via Stubbins Street Ramsbottom Rossendale
Received 23 May 2008Zion Cottage,Saunders Height Lane, Newchurch, Rossendale,BB4 9NA
Received 28 Mar 2008Fish Rake Farm Fish Rake Lane Edenfield Bury Lancashire BB4 7AH
Received 19 May 2008550 Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7TN
Received 19 May 2008The Old House At Home Hotel 62 Newchurch Road Rawtenstall
Received 9 May 200834 Ventnor Road Haslingden Lancashire BB4 6QP
Received 8 May 2008Land Off Bacup Road Hareholme Rossendale BB4 7JJ
Received 25 Apr 2008159 Newchurch Road Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7SU
Received 12 Feb 2008Arran Nurseries,Gasstreet,Haslingden,LANCASHIREBB4 4PT
Received 7 Mar 2008Holly Mount House St Mary's Way Rawtenstall
Received 6 Mar 2008Quicks Haulage,Atherton Way,Taylor Home Ind Est,Stacksteads Bacup,OL13 0LE
Received 4 Mar 20082 St Thomas's Road,Crawshawbooth,Lancashire,BB4 8PJ
Received 3 Mar 2008188 Todmorden Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 9UD
Received 18 Feb 2008Unit 10,Commerce Street,Carrs Estate,Haslingden,BB4 5JT
Received 18 Feb 20084 Cliffe Bank Hamlet Burnley Road East Waterfoot Rossendale Lancashire BB4 9QR
Received 15 Feb 2008Land Adjoining 15 Andrew Avenue Rawtenstall Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6EU
Received 18 Feb 2008Land At Newhalllhey, Rawtenstall
Received 5 Feb 2008Land To The West Of The Bowling Green Commercial Street Loveclough Rossendale Lancashire
Received 11 Feb 200814 Park Avenue Haslingden Rossendale Lancashire BB4 6PP
Received 12 Feb 20083 - 5 Goodshaw Fold Road,Loveclough,Lancashire,BB4 8QN
Received 27 Mar 2008Carter Place Cottage Hall Park Haslingden Lancashire BB4 5BQ
Received 27 Mar 20081 Lower Clowes Rossendale BB4 6EN
Received 28 Mar 2008Celeste Arnold 5 Market Place Edenfield Lancashire
Received 16 May 2009244 Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8QR
Received 1 Apr 2009Records 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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