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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71,459 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 St Winifreds Drive, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 7HR
Received 16 Jun 199710 Partis Way, Bath, BA1 3QG
Received 18 Jun 1997Fairfield Lodge, Van Diemens Lane, Bath, BA1 5TW
Received 18 Jun 1997The Paddocks, Beechwood Road, Bath, BA2 5JS
Received 25 Jun 199799 Entry Hill, Bath, BA2 5LS
Received 11 Jun 1997Lambridge House, London Road West, Bath, BA1 7HY
Received 26 Jun 1997Ivy House, Cavendish Road, Bath, BA1 2UE
Received 11 Jun 199724 Queen Square, Bath, BA1 2HX
Received 24 Apr 1997127 Southlands, Weston, Bath, BA1 4DZ
Received 10 Jun 199733-34 Corn Street, Bath, BA1 1UF
Received 11 Jun 1997Ivy House, Cavendish Road, Bath, BA1 2UE
Received 11 Jun 19971 Burleigh Gardens, Bath, BA1 3RR
Received 20 Jun 1997Culverhay Nursing Home (formerly Lymore Park), Lymore Avenue, Bath, BA2 1AY
Received 20 Jun 1997Bath Spa University, Sion Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SF
Received 30 Jul 1997The Stables, Horsecombe Vale, Bath, BA2 5QR
Received 3 Jul 199711 Chapel Row, Bath, BA1 1HN
Received 7 Jul 19977 Greenway Lane, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LJ
Received 17 Jun 1997St Winifreds Well Cott, Winifreds Lane, Bath, BA1 5SE
Received 19 Jun 199711 Belmont, Bath, BA1 5DZ
Received 16 Jun 19975 Woodland Place, Bath, BA2 6EH
Received 19 Jun 199711 Charlotte Street Queen Anne House (Was First Church Of Christ Scientist), City Centre, Bath, BA1 2NE
Received 16 Jun 19978 Cavendish Place, Bath, BA1 2UB
Received 1 Jul 199716 Sion Hill, Bath, BA1 2UJ
Received 20 Jun 19976 - 11 Union Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 1RT
Received 18 Jul 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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