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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
71,465 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Jun 1995 to 6 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Belvedere Cottage, Belvedere, Bath, BA1 5HR
Received 23 May 199616-18 Queen Square, Bath, BA1 2HN
Received 11 Jun 19969 Beaufort East , Bath, BA1 6QD
Received 11 Jun 19962 Cavendish Crescent, Bath, BA1 2UG
Received 10 Jun 1996Charlton Court, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3ES
Received 19 May 1996St Christophers Inn, 9 Green Street, Bath, BA1 2JY
Received 10 Jun 199610 Quarry Vale, Bath, BA2 5JZ
Received 12 Jun 199623 Bennett Street, Bath, BA1 2QL
Received 7 Jun 1996101 High Street, Weston, Bath, BA1 4DQ
Received 12 Jun 19965 Lambridge Mews, Bath, BA1 6QE
Received 12 Jun 1996Crescent Mews, Marlborough Buildings, City Centre, Bath, BA1 2LY
Received 11 Jun 1996Grey Lodge, Summer Lane, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 7EU
Received 22 May 199614 Somerset Place, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 5HA
Received 13 Jun 1996Hadfield Place, The Firs , Bath, BA2 5ED
Received 13 Jun 1996Henrietta House, 33 Henrietta Street, Bath, BA2 6LR
Received 24 May 1996Hadfield Place, The Firs , Bath, BA2 5ED
Received 10 Jun 199622 Marshfield Way, Bath, BA1 6HG
Received 6 Jun 19963 Raby Mews, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 4EJ
Received 14 Jun 19963 Raby Mews, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 4EJ
Received 14 Jun 199614 Brougham Hayes , Bath, BA2 3QU
Received 12 Jun 1996188 North Road, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5DN
Received 6 Jun 1996Street Record, Quarrymans Court, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset
Received 9 Jun 199612 North Parade, Bath, BA2 4AL
Received 13 Jun 199631 Leighton Road, Bath, BA1 4NF
Received 11 Jun 1996Records 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 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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