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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 Bath and North East Somerset Council. Also known as B&NES, BathNES and BANES.Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Bath and North East Somerset website
71,466 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Jun 1995 to 6 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 11 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
42 King Edward Road, Bath, BA2 3PB
Received 30 Oct 19961A Riverside Business Park, Riverside Road, Bath, BA2 3DW
Received 21 Oct 1996709 Wellsway, Bath, BA2 2TZ
Received 7 Nov 19961 Dover Place, Bath, BA1 6DX
Received 28 Oct 1996Barnlow, 10A Shophouse Road, Bath, BA2 1ED
Received 5 Nov 199649 Englishcombe Lane, Bath, BA2 2EE
Received 25 Oct 19961 Dover Place, Bath, BA1 6DX
Received 28 Oct 199621 Crescent Lane, City Centre, Bath, BA1 2PX
Received 31 Oct 1996Ponte Vecchio Bath Ltd, Spring Gardens Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PW
Received 25 Oct 1996Royal Crescent Hotel, 15-16 Royal Crescent, Bath, BA1 2CS
Received 12 Nov 19961-2 High Street, Weston, Bath, BA1 4BX
Received 4 Nov 199616 Daffords Buildings, Bath, BA1 6SG
Received 14 Nov 199616 Daffords Buildings, Bath, BA1 6SG
Received 14 Nov 19962A-3 Rivers Street Place, City Centre, Bath, BA1 2RS
Received 6 Nov 199641 Stall Street, Bath, BA1 1QH
Received 15 Nov 199641 Stall Street, Bath, BA1 1QH
Received 15 Nov 19968 Park Lane, Bath, BA1 2XG
Received 6 Nov 199630-35 Westgate Street, Bath,
Received 5 Nov 199621 Crescent Lane, City Centre, Bath, BA1 2PX
Received 4 Nov 199630-35 Westgate Street, Bath,
Received 5 Nov 1996O'Neills, 1 Barton Street, Bath, BA1 1HQ
Received 15 Nov 1996O'Neills, 1 Barton Street, Bath, BA1 1HQ
Received 15 Nov 19966-8 Charlton Buildings, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, BA2 3EA
Received 1 Nov 1996The Royal School, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5TA
Received 6 Nov 1996Records 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 Bath and North East Somerset 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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