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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71,450 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Julian Road, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 2RG
Received 27 May 1998Glenfield, Weston Park, Bath, BA1 4AL
Received 28 May 199821 Belvedere, Bath, BA1 5ED
Received 27 May 19987-8 Kingsmead Square, Bath, BA1 2AB
Received 22 May 19988 Park Lane, Bath, BA1 2XG
Received 29 May 199812 St Marys Close, Bath, BA2 6BR
Received 1 Jun 1998Corners, Warminster Road, Bath, BA2 6RW
Received 1 Jun 19984 Broad Street, Bath, BA1 5LJ
Received 29 May 199810 Church Street, Widcombe, Bath, BA2 6AZ
Received 27 May 1998High View, Greenway Lane, Bath, BA2 4LL
Received 18 May 1998Prior Park College, Ralph Allen Drive, Bath, BA2 5AH
Received 20 May 199814 New Bond Street, Bath, BA1 1BE
Received 20 May 199814 New Bond Street, Bath, BA1 1BE
Received 20 May 19981 Northumberland Buildings, Bath, BA1 2JB
Received 29 May 19985 Sion Hill, Bath, BA1 2UF
Received 2 Jun 19985 Sion Hill, Bath, BA1 2UF
Received 2 Jun 1998109 Mount Road, Southdown, Bath, BA2 1LL
Received 2 Jun 19982 Egerton Road, Bath, BA2 2DP
Received 2 Jun 1998Kings Court, Parsonage Lane, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1ER
Received 21 May 19983 Royal Crescent, Bath, BA1 2LR
Received 20 May 1998Kings Court, Parsonage Lane, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1ER
Received 21 May 19988 St Marys Buildings, Bath, BA2 3AT
Received 1 Jun 19985 Crown Hill, Upper Weston, Bath, BA1 4BP
Received 3 Jun 19989 Cavendish Place, Bath, BA1 2UB
Received 1 Jun 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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