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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
71,453 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Jun 1995 to 12 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
10-11 St James's Square, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 2TR
Received 29 Jan 199710-11 St James's Square, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 2TR
Received 29 Jan 19973 Lansdown Crescent, Bath, BA1 5EX
Received 5 Feb 199713 New King Street, Bath, BA1 2BL
Received 4 Feb 1997Graphics Interface Ltd, Roseberry Road, Bath, BA2 3DX
Received 4 Feb 1997Cooperative Retail Services, 3A Burlington Place, Bath, BA1 6RS
Received 29 Jan 199757 Combe Park, Bath, BA1 3NH
Received 31 Jan 199710 Cavendish Place, Bath, BA1 2UB
Received 7 Feb 199757 Combe Park, Bath, BA1 3NH
Received 31 Jan 199737A Lyncombe Hill, Bath, BA2 4PQ
Received 10 Feb 199718 Trafalgar Road, Weston, Bath
Received 6 Feb 1997Mendip, Shepherds Walk, Bath, BA2 5QU
Received 10 Feb 199757 St Johns Road, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 6PZ
Received 11 Feb 1997115 High Street, Twerton On Avon, Bath, BA2 1DB
Received 26 Feb 1997Bathwick Hill House, Bathwick Hill, Bath, BA2 6HA
Received 11 Feb 199737 High Street, Twerton On Avon, Bath, BA2 1DB
Received 12 Feb 199718 Lytton Gardens, Bath, BA2 1LW
Received 12 Feb 19979 - 10 Bath Street, Bath, BA1 1SN
Received 6 Mar 1997Hartwells Garage, Newbridge Road, Bath, BA1 2PP
Received 7 Feb 19979 - 10 Bath Street, Bath, BA1 1SN
Received 6 Mar 1997The Old Organ Factory, Cleveland Cottages, Bath, BA1 5DD
Received 29 Jan 1997Royal United Hospital, Combe Park, Bath, BA1 3NG
Received 27 Feb 1997Lyncombe Hall, Lyncombe Vale Road, Bath, BA2 4LP
Received 12 Feb 199712 Southgate , Bath, BA1 1TD
Received 13 Feb 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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