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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
71,458 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,437 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Jun 1995 to 10 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
24 Queen Square, Bath, BA1 2HX
Received 12 Aug 199714 Beaufort East , Bath, BA1 6QD
Received 19 Aug 199731 Milsom Street, Bath, BA1 1DG
Received 12 Aug 199731 Milsom Street, Bath, BA1 1DG
Received 18 Aug 1997Cooperative Retail Services, Upper Bloomfield Road, Bath, BA2 2RY
Received 20 Aug 199726 Grosvenor Place, Bath, BA1 6BA
Received 15 Aug 19977 Heather Drive, Bath, BA2 2BW
Received 20 Aug 199733 Prospect Place, Camden Road, Bath, BA1 5JD
Received 19 Aug 199726 Broadmoor Lane, Weston, Bath, BA1 4JY
Received 19 Aug 199724 Queen Square, Bath, BA1 2HX
Received 23 Apr 1997Allcars, 4 Brassmill Lane, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3JE
Received 20 Aug 19974 Forester Avenue, Bath, BA2 6QD
Received 22 Aug 1997Newland House, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5RE
Received 21 Aug 1997105 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5JJ
Received 22 Aug 1997Badgers Barn, Rockhall Lane, Bath, BA2 5JF
Received 26 Aug 1997Red Lion Public House, 468 Wellsway, Bath, BA2 2UA
Received 22 Aug 1997Red Lion Public House, 468 Wellsway, Bath, BA2 2UA
Received 22 Aug 1997Millhouse Audi, Prior Park Road, Bath, BA2 4NF
Received 21 Aug 1997Millhouse Audi, Prior Park Road, Bath, BA2 4NF
Received 21 Aug 19971 Sunnybank, Bath, BA2 4NA
Received 22 Aug 19972 Vineyards, Bath, BA1 5NA
Received 20 Aug 199718 Darlington Place, Bath, BA2 6BX
Received 19 Aug 1997Halifax PLC, 26 Stall Street, Bath, BA1 1QF
Received 21 Aug 19975-6 Northumberland Buildings, Bath, BA1 2JB
Received 26 Aug 1997Records 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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