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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
71,450 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Jun 1995 to 12 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
38 Westgate Street, Bath, BA1 1EL
Received 10 Aug 199837 Walcot Street, Bath, BA1 5BN
Received 25 Aug 1998Royal National Hospital For Rheumatic Diseases, Upper Borough Walls, Bath, BA1 1RL
Received 21 Aug 1998Royal National Hospital For Rheumatic Diseases, Upper Borough Walls, Bath, BA1 1RL
Received 1 Sept 199812 Kingston Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 26 Aug 19983 Cambridge Terrace, Bath, BA2 6BE
Received 1 Sept 1998Roman (Toyota), Lower Bristol Road, Bath, BA2 3DN
Received 4 Sept 19984 Cambridge Terrace, Bath, BA2 6BE
Received 26 Aug 199882 Walcot Street, Bath, BA1 5BD
Received 7 Sept 1998Theatre Royal, Sawclose, Bath, BA1 1ET
Received 1 Sept 199821 Royal Crescent, Bath, BA1 2LT
Received 3 Sept 1998St Johns, Combe Park, Lower Weston, Bath, BA1 3NF
Received 1 Sept 19981 Balustrade , Bath, BA1 6QA
Received 3 Sept 199819 Royal Crescent, Bath, BA1 2LT
Received 4 Sept 1998Pulteney Court, Pulteney Road, Bathwick, Bath,
Received 8 Sept 199817 Grove Street, Bath, BA2 6PJ
Received 8 Sept 1998Belvoir Castle, 32 - 33 Victoria Buildings, Twerton, Bath, BA2 3EH
Received 8 Sept 1998Isabella Mews, The Avenue , Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5EH
Received 28 Aug 1998Accident & Emergency Department, Royal United Hospital, Lower Weston, Bath, BA1 3NG
Received 1 Sept 199819 Royal Crescent, Bath, BA1 2LT
Received 4 Sept 199815 Milsom Street, Bath, BA1 1DE
Received 26 Aug 199815 Milsom Street, Bath, BA1 1DE
Received 26 Aug 1998Bath Abbey, Abbey Churchyard, Bath, BA1 1LY
Received 7 Sept 1998152 Rush Hill, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2QX
Received 7 Sept 1998Records 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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