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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71,464 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Villa Rosa, Darlington Road, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 6NN
Received 10 Jul 1996Crescent Mews, Marlborough Buildings, City Centre, Bath, BA1 2LY
Received 8 Jul 1996Governors House, Stuart Place, Bath, BA2 3RG
Received 15 Jul 19962 Springfield Place, Bath, BA1 5RA
Received 30 May 1996Health And Beauty Centre, 11 Queen Street, Bath, BA1 1HE
Received 11 Jul 19964 Miles's Buildings, Bath, BA1 2QS
Received 8 Jul 19960/0005/0/BC1, 6 Bath Street, Bath, BA1 1SA
Received 11 Jul 19960/0005/0/BC1, 6 Bath Street, Bath, BA1 1SA
Received 11 Jul 199613 Manvers Street, Bath, BA1 1JH
Received 17 Jul 199653 Leighton Road, Bath, BA1 4NG
Received 12 Jul 1996Claire's Accessories Limited, 23 Stall Street, Bath, BA1 1QF
Received 17 Jul 1996Barcote House, Lansdown Grove, Bath, BA1 5EN
Received 11 Jun 199613 Manvers Street, Bath, BA1 1JH
Received 17 Jul 1996Flat 3, 12 Lansdown Crescent, Bath, BA1 5EX
Received 17 Jul 199662 Lower Oldfield Park, Bath, BA2 3HP
Received 15 Jul 1996St Just, Maple Grove, Bath, BA2 3AF
Received 11 Jul 19962 Longthorne Place, Entry Hill, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5LG
Received 12 Jul 1996The Tumps, Bloomfield Road, Bath
Received 15 Jul 1996Minerva House, Lower Bristol Road, Bath, BA2 9ER
Received 15 Jul 1996The Auld Folly, 101B Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JJ
Received 4 Jul 19967 Stirtingale Avenue, Bath, BA2 2NQ
Received 24 Jun 1996Greenfields, Beechwood Road, Bath, BA2 5JU
Received 9 Jul 199612 Chaucer Road, Bath, BA2 4QU
Received 21 Jun 19961 Avondale Court, Lower Weston, Bath, BA1 3ET
Received 21 Jun 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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