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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71,450 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Glenfield, Weston Park, Bath, BA1 4AL
Received 7 May 199820 Vernslade , Bath, BA1 4DN
Received 8 May 1998Englishcombe Lodge, Englishcombe Lane, Bath, BA2 2EH
Received 11 May 199833 Church Road, Weston, Bath, BA1 4BT
Received 8 May 199810 Beaufort East , Bath, BA1 6QD
Received 12 May 199815 Brookleaze Buildings, Bath, BA1 6RA
Received 11 May 1998Thorntons, 14 Union Street, Bath, BA1 1RR
Received 13 May 1998Newlands, Sham Castle Lane, Bath, BA2 6JN
Received 13 May 1998Sunnymead, Beechen Cliff Road, Bath, BA2 4QR
Received 13 May 19986 Forester Lane, Bath, BA2 6QX
Received 12 May 199820 Manvers Street, Bath, BA1 1LX
Received 8 May 199841-43 Frome Road, Odd Down, Bath, BA2 2QF
Received 8 May 1998The Rostra Gallery, 5 George Street, Bath, BA1 2EJ
Received 13 May 1998Morgrove, Perrymead , Bath, BA2 5AZ
Received 11 May 19983-5 Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, BA1 6AX
Received 12 May 19983-5 Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, BA1 6AX
Received 12 May 19987 Hamilton Road, Bath, BA1 5SB
Received 11 May 19987 Hamilton Road, Bath, BA1 5SB
Received 18 May 199835 Brooklyn Road, Bath, BA1 6TE
Received 14 May 199820 Porlock Road, Bath, BA2 5PG
Received 11 May 199898 Rush Hill, Bath, BA2 2QS
Received 14 May 1998133 Rush Hill, Bath, BA2 2QT
Received 15 May 1998King Edwards School, North Road, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 6HU
Received 18 May 1998109 The Hollow, Bath, BA2 1NE
Received 11 May 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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