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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
71,460 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
8 Bridge Street, Bath, BA2 4AS
Received 25 Mar 19977 Upper Lansdown Mews, Bath, BA1 5HG
Received 25 Mar 19975 Camden Crescent, Bath, BA1 5HY
Received 20 Mar 19975 Camden Crescent, Bath, BA1 5HY
Received 20 Mar 1997The Lodge, Darlington Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NN
Received 25 Mar 1997Car Park Area Adjacent To 19, Burlington Street, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 2SB
Received 27 Mar 19973 Chapel Row, Bath, BA1 1HN
Received 27 Mar 19975 Prior Park Buildings, Bath, BA2 4NP
Received 15 May 199719 Westgate Street, Bath, BA1 1EQ
Received 26 Mar 1997Heathcote, Darlington Road, Bath, BA2 6NL
Received 26 Mar 1997Royal York Hotel, 1 York Buildings, George Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 2EB
Received 14 Mar 199738 Tyning End, Bath, BA2 6AP
Received 1 Apr 199741 Vernham Grove, Bath, BA2 2TA
Received 1 Apr 1997Sainsburys Petrol Station, Pines Way, Westmoreland, Bath, BA2 3ET
Received 1 Apr 199720 Elliston Drive, Bath, BA2 1LU
Received 2 Apr 1997Hartwells Garage, Newbridge Road, Bath, BA1 2PP
Received 2 Apr 199710 Dunsford Place, Bath, BA2 6HF
Received 3 Apr 199710 Dunsford Place, Bath, BA2 6HF
Received 27 Mar 1997Jack Wills 1 New Bond Street Buildings, New Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BL
Received 1 Apr 199723 Bennett Street, Bath, BA1 2QL
Received 25 Mar 19979 Vineyards, Bath, BA1 5NA
Received 2 Apr 1997Oakwood, Bathwick Hill, Bath, BA2 6EJ
Received 23 Apr 1997Oakwood, Bathwick Hill, Bath, BA2 6EJ
Received 23 Apr 19977 Lansdown Place East , Bath, BA1 5ET
Received 27 Mar 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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