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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71,459 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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 - 11 Union Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 1RT
Received 18 Jul 199720 Great Pulteney Street, Bath, BA2 4BT
Received 1 Jul 1997Oldfield School, Kelston Road, Bath, BA1 9AB
Received 16 Jun 199720 Great Pulteney Street, Bath, BA2 4BT
Received 26 Jun 1997Alliance & Leicester Giro, 42 Milsom Street, Bath, BA1 1DN
Received 15 Jul 1997Widcombe County Infants' School, Archway Street, Bath, BA2 4JG
Received 23 Jun 1997Hare And Hounds Public House, Lansdown Road, Bath
Received 23 Jun 199716 Woodland Grove, Bath, BA2 7AT
Received 23 Jun 1997Hare And Hounds Public House, Lansdown Road, Bath
Received 23 Jun 199710 Westgate Street, Bath, BA1 1EQ
Received 17 Jun 1997Cooperative Retail Services, 112 Mount Road, Southdown, Bath, BA2 1LN
Received 25 Jun 199724 Gladstone Road, Bath, BA2 5HL
Received 25 Jun 1997Ministry Of Defence Foxhills, Bradford Road, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5BS
Received 16 Jun 19972 Newbridge Hill, Bath, BA1 3PU
Received 26 Jun 19976 Darlington Road, Bath, BA2 6NL
Received 16 Jul 19972 Tennyson Road, Bath, BA1 3BG
Received 27 Jun 199748 Combe Park, Bath, BA1 3NS
Received 27 Jun 199710 Forester Avenue, Bath, BA2 6QD
Received 27 Jun 199737A Lyncombe Hill, Bath, BA2 4PQ
Received 27 Jun 1997Huntsman Inn, 1 Terrace Walk, Bath, BA1 1LJ
Received 25 Jun 1997Cavendish Lodge, Cavendish Road, Bath, BA1 2UD
Received 26 Jun 199741-43 Frome Road, Odd Down, Bath, BA2 2QF
Received 1 Jul 199739 Napier Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4LN
Received 30 Jun 199711 Lansdown Crescent, Bath, BA1 5EX
Received 2 Jul 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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