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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
71,458 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Southgate Development, Southgate Street, City Centre, Bath,
Received 28 Nov 1997Bath Spa Railway Station, Dorchester Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 1SU
Received 28 Nov 1997Southgate Development, Southgate Street, City Centre, Bath,
Received 5 Dec 1997Nationwide Building Society, 21 Old Bond Street, Bath, BA1 1BP
Received 5 Dec 1997Nationwide Building Society, 21 Old Bond Street, Bath, BA1 1BP
Received 5 Dec 199717 Lyme Road, Bath, BA1 3LN
Received 5 Dec 1997109 Mount Road, Southdown, Bath, BA2 1LL
Received 8 Dec 1997101 Sydney Place, Bath, BA2 6NE
Received 4 Dec 1997101 Sydney Place, Bath, BA2 6NE
Received 4 Dec 19974 Johnstone Street, Bath, BA2 4DH
Received 8 Dec 1997Woods Restaurant, 9-13 Alfred Street, Bath, BA1 2QX
Received 8 Dec 1997Woods Restaurant, 9-13 Alfred Street, Bath, BA1 2QX
Received 8 Dec 199713 Raby Place, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 4EH
Received 8 Dec 199713 Raby Place, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 4EH
Received 8 Dec 1997Royal United Hospital, Combe Park, Bath, BA1 3NG
Received 3 Dec 1997Street Record, Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath
Received 10 Dec 19975 Trim Street, Bath, BA1 1HB
Received 8 Dec 1997Royal United Hospital, Combe Park, Bath, BA1 3NG
Received 11 Dec 1997Royal York Hotel, 1 York Buildings, George Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 2EB
Received 9 Dec 1997Royal York Hotel, 1 York Buildings, George Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 2EB
Received 9 Dec 1997Goblin Combe, North Road, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 6HW
Received 12 Dec 1997The Harvester, Gloucester Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, BA1 7BW
Received 3 Dec 199712 Henrietta Villas, Bath, BA2 6LX
Received 10 Dec 199760 Lower Bristol Road, Bath, BA2 3BE
Received 12 Dec 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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