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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71,458 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7 St James's Square, Bath, BA1 2TR
Received 7 Jul 1997Millbrook Court (Formerly Millbrook Training Centre), Millbrook Place, Bath, BA2 4JY
Received 10 Jul 19972 Raby Villas, Sydney Wharf, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 4EE
Received 11 Jul 19977 - 8 Abbeygate Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1NP
Received 14 Jul 199751 Lyncombe Hill, Bath, BA2 4PQ
Received 9 Jul 199751 Lyncombe Hill, Bath, BA2 4PQ
Received 9 Jul 19971A Queen Square, Bath, BA1 2HA
Received 8 Jul 19971A Queen Square, Bath, BA1 2HA
Received 8 Jul 1997Peggy Dodd Centre, Brierley House, Summer Lane, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5LE
Received 15 Jul 19979 Holland Road, Bath, BA1 6QG
Received 30 Jul 1997Wessex Water Operations Centre, Claverton Down Road, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7WW
Received 15 Jul 19974 Lyndhurst Terrace, Bath, BA1 5NR
Received 15 Jul 1997Cavendish Villa, Cavendish Road, Bath, BA1 2UD
Received 14 Jul 199718 The Circus, Bath, BA1 2ET
Received 16 Jul 1997Firtree Cottage, Hampton Row, Bath, BA2 6QS
Received 14 Jul 1997Firtree Cottage, Hampton Row, Bath, BA2 6QS
Received 14 Jul 199717 Royal Crescent, Bath, BA1 2LT
Received 10 Jul 1997Street Record, Stall Street, City Centre, Bath
Received 17 Jul 1997The Royal School, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5TA
Received 14 Jul 1997The Royal School, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5TA
Received 14 Jul 1997Cooperative Retail Services, 11 Wellsway, Bath, BA2 4QL
Received 17 Jul 1997Cooperative Retail Services, 3A Burlington Place, Bath, BA1 6RS
Received 17 Jul 19979 Circus , Bath, BA1 2EW
Received 11 Jul 19979 Circus , Bath, BA1 2EW
Received 11 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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