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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
71,459 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Bladud Buildings, Bath, BA1 5LS
Received 13 May 199723 Milsom Street, Bath, BA1 1DE
Received 22 May 199614 Newbridge Road, Bath, BA1 3JX
Received 2 Jun 199717 Cedric Road, Bath, BA1 3PD
Received 16 May 1997Lampard's Buildings, Ballance Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2RW
Received 20 May 1997Combe Down Express (formerly Glasshouse Service Station), Midford Road, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5RU
Received 19 May 1997Windsor Bridge Garage, Upper Bristol Road, Bath, BA1 3AS
Received 19 May 19979 Rivers Street, Bath, BA1 2PZ
Received 21 May 1997Walden, Widcombe Hill, Bath, BA2 6ED
Received 20 May 19973 Marlborough Street, Bath, BA1 2TX
Received 19 May 19979 Rivers Street, Bath, BA1 2PZ
Received 21 May 199710 Pierrepont Street, Bath, BA1 1LA
Received 15 May 199718-19 Monmouth Place, City Centre, Bath, BA1 2AY
Received 19 May 19972A Rivers Street Place, Bath, BA1 2RS
Received 22 May 1997Newland House, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5RE
Received 23 May 1997Ministry Of Defence (Ensleigh), Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5AB
Received 23 May 1997Victoria Cottage, Rose Terrace, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5EW
Received 27 May 199727 Burnt House Road, Bath, BA2 2AQ
Received 23 May 1997Hubert's Cottage, 273 Bloomfield Road, Bath, BA2 2NT
Received 27 May 19979 Rockliffe Avenue, Bath, BA2 6QP
Received 29 May 1997The Moorings, Sydney Wharf, Bath, BA2 4EF
Received 23 May 19972 Richardson Place, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5ES
Received 27 May 199715 Bathwick Street, Bath, BA2 6NY
Received 3 Jun 1997Narom, 16 Sham Castle Lane, Bath, BA2 6JL
Received 27 May 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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