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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71,453 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
3 Fountain Buildings, Bath, BA1 5DU
Received 13 Mar 19973 Fountain Buildings, Bath, BA1 5DU
Received 13 Mar 19976 St John's Road, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 6PX
Received 2 Apr 19977 Brunswick Street, Bath, BA1 6PQ
Received 14 Mar 19979 Beaufort Mews, Bath, BA1 6QF
Received 14 Mar 19979 Richmond Hill, Bath, BA1 5QT
Received 17 Mar 19979 Beaufort Mews, Bath, BA1 6QF
Received 14 Mar 19979 Richmond Hill, Bath, BA1 5QT
Received 10 Apr 1997King Edwards School, Broad Street, Bath, BA1 5LP
Received 11 Mar 1997King Edwards School, Broad Street, Bath, BA1 5LP
Received 11 Mar 1997Holland & Barrett, 42 Stall Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 1QH
Received 18 Mar 19974 Lambridge , Bath, BA1 6BJ
Received 19 Mar 19975 Camden Crescent, Bath, BA1 5HY
Received 18 Mar 1997Herschel Museum, 19 New King Street, Bath, BA1 2BL
Received 19 Mar 19972, Broadway Court, Miles Street, Bath, BA2 4HX
Received 13 Mar 1997John Wood Building, Avon Street, Bath, BA1 1AG
Received 18 Mar 1997The Cott, Richmond Lane, Bath, BA1 5QW
Received 19 Mar 1997John Slessor Court, Camden Row, Bath, BA1 5LD
Received 17 Mar 1997The Cott, Richmond Lane, Bath, BA1 5QW
Received 19 Mar 199720A Bellotts Road, Bath, BA2 3RT
Received 19 Mar 1997Oldfield Surgery, 45 Upper Oldfield Park, Bath, BA2 3LB
Received 19 Mar 1997Royal York Hotel, 1 York Buildings, George Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 2EB
Received 14 Mar 199741 Crescent Gardens, Bath, BA1 2NB
Received 21 Mar 1997Highmead House Stoneleigh Park, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5TL
Received 21 Mar 1997Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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