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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
71,457 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
19 Walcot Buildings, Bath, BA1 6AD
Received 16 Sept 199719 Walcot Buildings, Bath, BA1 6AD
Received 16 Sept 199732 St James's Square, Bath, BA1 2TT
Received 10 Sept 1997The Moorings, Sydney Wharf, Bath, BA2 4EF
Received 2 Sept 199730-32 Westgate Street, Bath,
Received 10 Sept 1997Halifax PLC, 26 Stall Street, Bath, BA1 1QF
Received 11 Sept 1997Unnumbered Building, Lansdown Mews, Lansdown, Bath,
Received 10 Sept 199710 Sydney Buildings, Bath, BA2 6BZ
Received 16 Sept 199710 Sydney Buildings, Bath, BA2 6BZ
Received 16 Sept 19976 St Stephens Place, Bath, BA1 5PJ
Received 18 Sept 19971 Beaufort East , Bath, BA1 6QD
Received 9 Sept 19971 Beaufort East , Bath, BA1 6QD
Received 9 Sept 1997City Of Bath College, Avon Street, Bath, BA1 1UN
Received 5 Sept 1997John Wood Building, Avon Street, Bath, BA1 1AG
Received 5 Sept 1997University Of Bath, University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7PB
Received 18 Sept 1997The Moorings, Sydney Wharf, Bath, BA2 4EF
Received 18 Sept 1997Lansdown Lawn Tennis And Racquet Club, Northfields , Bath, BA1 5TN
Received 17 Sept 1997Garages At Rear Of, 21 Maple Grove, Oldfield Park, Bath, BA2 3AF
Received 18 Sept 1997Sydney Gardens Hotel, Sydney Road, Bath, BA2 6NT
Received 22 Sept 199799 Sydney Place, Bath, BA2 6NE
Received 19 Sept 19975 London Street, Bath, BA1 5BU
Received 22 Sept 199738 Greenacres, Weston, Bath, BA1 4NS
Received 22 Sept 1997University Of Bath, University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7PB
Received 19 Sept 19973 Poplar Road, Bath, BA2 2AJ
Received 23 Sept 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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