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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71,464 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Old Red Lion Yard, Frome Road, Bath
Received 6 Aug 1996Bathwick Hill House, Bathwick Hill, Bath, BA2 6HA
Received 6 Aug 1996Bathwick Hill House, Bathwick Hill, Bath, BA2 6HA
Received 6 Aug 199612 St Andrews Terrace, Bath, BA1 2QR
Received 5 Aug 199610 Palace Yard Mews, Bath, BA1 2NH
Received 8 Aug 1996161 Ringswell Gardens, Bath, BA1 6BP
Received 8 Aug 1996Chestnut House, Sion Hill, Bath, BA1 2UL
Received 7 Aug 1996Royal United Hospital, Combe Park, Bath, BA1 3NG
Received 12 Aug 1996Northgate House, Upper Borough Walls, City Centre, Bath, BA1 1RG
Received 9 Aug 19961 Otago Terrace, Bath, BA1 6SX
Received 9 Aug 1996Flat 6 Ground Floor, 14 Royal Crescent, City Centre, Bath, BA1 2LR
Received 12 Aug 1996Hampstead Bazaar, 4 - 5 Pulteney Bridge, City Centre, Bath, BA2 4AX
Received 7 Aug 199612-13 Kingston Buildings, City Centre, Bath, BA1 1LT
Received 7 Aug 1996Lewis House, Manvers Street, Bath, BA1 1JQ
Received 12 Aug 1996Lewis House, Manvers Street, Bath, BA1 1JQ
Received 12 Aug 19965 Mount View, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 5QF
Received 13 Aug 19968 - 10 North Parade, City Centre, Bath, BA2 4AL
Received 9 Aug 19963 Darlington Place, Bath, BA2 6BX
Received 7 Aug 19963 Darlington Place, Bath, BA2 6BX
Received 9 Aug 1996Midsummer Herbs, Julian Road, Bath, BA1 2PY
Received 12 Jun 1996Beazer House, Lower Bristol Road, Bath, BA2 3EY
Received 8 Aug 1996Brae House, Perrymead , Bath, BA2 5AX
Received 13 Aug 1996Somerfield Stores Limited, 20 High Street, Weston, Bath, BA1 4BX
Received 13 Aug 199660 High Street, Weston, Bath, BA1 4DB
Received 15 Aug 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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