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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
71,464 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Royal Oak Public House, 8-10 Summerlays Place, Bath, BA2 4HN
Received 2 Jul 19963 Fersfield , Bath, BA2 5AR
Received 10 Jun 19963 Fersfield , Bath, BA2 5AR
Received 10 Jun 19961 Crescent Gardens, Bath, BA1 2NA
Received 18 Jun 1996Post Office, 24-25 New Bond Street, Bath, BA1 1BA
Received 20 Mar 1996Post Office, 24-25 New Bond Street, Bath, BA1 1BA
Received 20 Mar 199622 Edward Street, Lower Weston, Bath, BA1 3BP
Received 3 Jul 1996Babylon, Kingston Road, Bath, BA1 1PQ
Received 28 Jun 1996Babylon, Kingston Road, Bath, BA1 1PQ
Received 28 Jun 1996King Edwards School, North Road, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 6HU
Received 24 Jun 199612 Stirtingale Road, Bath, BA2 2NF
Received 3 Jul 1996Summerdale, 8 Greenway Lane, Bath, BA2 4LJ
Received 18 Jun 1996Holburne Museum Of Art, Great Pulteney Street, Bath, BA2 4DB
Received 24 Jun 199641 Crescent Gardens, Bath, BA1 2NB
Received 24 Jun 1996Holburne Museum Of Art, Great Pulteney Street, Bath, BA2 4DB
Received 24 Jun 1996Holburne Museum Of Art, Great Pulteney Street, Bath, BA2 4DB
Received 24 Jun 1996Empty Premises, 3 New Bond Street Buildings, New Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 1BL
Received 18 Jun 199622 Stonehouse Lane, Bath, BA2 5DW
Received 25 Jun 1996231 Bloomfield Road, Bath, BA2 2AY
Received 4 Jul 1996The Moorings, Sydney Wharf, Bath, BA2 4EF
Received 14 May 19967 Johnstone Street, Bath, BA2 4DH
Received 5 Jul 1996The Moorings, Sydney Wharf, Bath, BA2 4EF
Received 14 May 19969 Upper Lansdown Mews, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 5HG
Received 4 Jul 19968 Pierrepont Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 1LA
Received 9 Jul 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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