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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71,458 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
St Winifreds Well Cott, Winifreds Lane, Bath, BA1 5SE
Received 26 Aug 1997Victoria Bridge Court, Victoria Bridge Road, Kingsmead, Bath, BA1 3AY
Received 26 Aug 19973 Hill Avenue, Bath, BA2 5DB
Received 27 Aug 199724A Bennett Street, Bath, BA1 2QL
Received 29 Aug 199717 Bennetts Road, Bath, BA1 7AW
Received 1 Sept 199749 Shakespeare Avenue, Bath, BA2 4RG
Received 1 Sept 19974 Johnstone Street, Bath, BA2 4DH
Received 27 Aug 19979A Cavendish Place, Bath, BA1 2UB
Received 1 Sept 19979A Cavendish Place, Bath, BA1 2UB
Received 1 Sept 1997Motorway Tyres Limited, Lower Bristol Road, Bath, BA2 3BN
Received 29 Aug 1997Larchwood, Claverton Down Road, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AE
Received 29 Aug 19974A Cleveland Place East, Walcot, Bath, BA1 5DJ
Received 29 Aug 1997117B Rush Hill, Bath, BA2 2QT
Received 29 Aug 1997Former T A Centre (Now 1-24 Victoria Bridge Court), Upper Bristol Road, Bath, BA1 3AF
Received 26 Aug 19971A Beaufort Place, Bath, BA1 6RP
Received 1 Sept 1997Churchill Bridge Service Station, Lower Bristol Road, Bath, BA2 3BA
Received 3 Sept 199799 Sydney Place, Bath, BA2 6NE
Received 3 Sept 199745 St James's Parade, City Centre, Bath, BA1 1UQ
Received 2 Sept 19974 North Parade, Bath, BA1 1LF
Received 3 Sept 1997Ministry Of Defence, Warminster Road, Bathampton, Bath, BA1 5AA
Received 2 Sept 1997University Of Bath, University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7PB
Received 29 Aug 1997City Of Bath College, Avon Street, Bath, BA1 1UN
Received 5 Sept 1997Rosewood House, St Saviours Road, Bath, BA1 6RN
Received 4 Sept 19971A Triangle Villas, Bath, BA2 3JF
Received 4 Sept 1997Records 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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