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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71,457 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
4 Worcester Villas, Bath, BA1 6QR
Received 19 Nov 19976 - 11 Union Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 1RT
Received 14 Nov 1997Fitzroy House, 55-59 Great Pulteney Street, Bath, BA2 4DW
Received 19 Nov 199713 Pera Place, Bath, BA1 5NX
Received 20 Nov 19979 Hensley Gardens, Bath, BA2 2DS
Received 20 Nov 199710 Larkhall Place, Bath, BA1 6SF
Received 13 Nov 1997Fitzroy House, 55-59 Great Pulteney Street, Bath, BA2 4DW
Received 19 Nov 19978 Paragon, Bath, BA1 5LX
Received 24 Nov 1997Arisaig, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5TD
Received 24 Nov 1997Windsor Bridge Garage, Upper Bristol Road, Bath, BA1 3AS
Received 20 Nov 1997Safeway Stores Plc, London Road, Bath, BA1 6PT
Received 20 Nov 1997Windsor Bridge Garage, Upper Bristol Road, Bath, BA1 3AS
Received 20 Nov 1997Safeway Stores Plc, London Road, Bath, BA1 6PT
Received 20 Nov 1997Menzies Waterside Hotel, Rossiter Road, Widcombe, Bath, BA2 4JP
Received 14 Nov 1997Menzies Waterside Hotel, Rossiter Road, Widcombe, Bath, BA2 4JP
Received 14 Nov 1997Walcot Yard, Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BG
Received 20 Nov 1997Walcot Yard, Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BG
Received 20 Nov 1997Bath Spa Railway Station, Dorchester Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 1SU
Received 25 Nov 19977 Pierrepont Street, Bath, BA1 1LA
Received 25 Nov 1997Ministry Of Defence, Warminster Road, Bathampton, Bath, BA1 5AA
Received 24 Nov 199785 High Street, Weston, Bath, BA1 4DD
Received 25 Nov 1997Doolallys, 51 Walcot Street, Bath, BA1 5BN
Received 21 Nov 1997Bath Self Storage, Bellotts Road, Bath, BA2 3DT
Received 26 Nov 1997Hayesfield Girls Lower School, Brougham Hayes , Bath, BA2 3QU
Received 28 Nov 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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