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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71,457 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Rising Sun Public House, 58 Lymore Avenue, Bath, BA2 1BD
Received 2 Oct 199716 Summerhill Road, Bath, BA1 2UR
Received 24 Sept 1997Happy Days Nursery, Culverhay Secondary School, Rush Hill, Bath, BA2 2QJ
Received 2 Oct 1997Bath College, Avon Street, Bath, BA1 1UN
Received 2 Oct 1997Combe Down Express (formerly Glasshouse Service Station), Midford Road, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5RU
Received 7 Oct 19976 Widcombe Crescent, Bath, BA2 6AH
Received 6 Oct 1997Cedar Cottage, Sion Hill, Bath, BA1 2UJ
Received 8 Oct 1997Parade Gardens, Grand Parade, Bath, BA2 4DF
Received 17 Sept 1997Parade Gardens, Grand Parade, Bath, BA2 4DF
Received 17 Sept 19971 Hayesfield Park, Bath, BA2 4QE
Received 8 Oct 1997St Johns RC Primary School, Pulteney Road, Bath, BA2 4EZ
Received 9 Oct 199727 Lansdown Park, Bath, BA1 5TG
Received 10 Oct 19977 Alexander Buildings, Bath, BA1 6AT
Received 13 Oct 1997154 North Road, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5DL
Received 9 Oct 1997Newbridge Park And Ride, Newbridge Road, Bath, BA1 3JX
Received 10 Oct 199710 Cavendish Place, Bath, BA1 2UB
Received 7 Oct 1997Driftwood Lodge, 140A London Road West, Lower Swainswick, Bath, BA1 7DD
Received 30 Sept 1997Driftwood Lodge, 140A London Road West, Lower Swainswick, Bath, BA1 7DD
Received 30 Sept 19979-10 Bathwick Street, Bath, BA2 6NX
Received 13 Oct 19979-10 Bathwick Street, Bath, BA2 6NX
Received 13 Oct 1997Moss Of Bath, 45 St James's Parade, City Centre, Bath, BA1 1UQ
Received 14 Oct 19972 Kennington Road, Bath, BA1 3EA
Received 14 Oct 1997100 Sydney Place, Bath, BA2 6NE
Received 14 Oct 1997100 Sydney Place, Bath, BA2 6NE
Received 14 Oct 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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