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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71,450 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
48 Rudmore Park, Bath, BA1 3JA
Received 18 May 199840 Combe Park, Bath, BA1 3NR
Received 13 May 199840 Combe Park, Bath, BA1 3NR
Received 13 May 199825 Horsecombe Brow, Bath, BA2 5QY
Received 18 May 1998Community Rowing Facility, Newbridge Road, Newbridge, Bath,
Received 18 May 1998Maylou, 118A Rush Hill, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2QU
Received 20 May 199899 Entry Hill, Bath, BA2 5LS
Received 21 May 199813 Grosvenor Place, Bath, BA1 6AX
Received 21 May 199819 Northampton Street, Bath, BA1 2SN
Received 19 May 199841 Bradford Road, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5BW
Received 22 May 1998De Montalt Place, 1 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath,
Received 21 May 19985 Upper East Hayes, Bath, BA1 6LN
Received 28 May 1998Victoria Park Business Centre, Upper Bristol Road, Bath
Received 21 May 1998Classic By Design, 12 Hanover Street, Bath, BA1 6PP
Received 22 May 199842 Sydney Buildings, Bath, BA2 6DB
Received 22 May 1998Holy Trinity Church, Monmouth Place, Bath, BA1 2AY
Received 26 May 1998Street Record, Penn Hill Road, Lower Weston, Bath
Received 14 May 1998Beckford Cottage, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 9BH
Received 22 May 1998National Car Rental, Brassmill Lane, Newbridge, Bath, BA1 3JE
Received 22 May 19987 Edgar Buildings, Bath, BA1 2EE
Received 26 May 199830-32 Westgate Street, Bath,
Received 13 May 1998115 High Street, Twerton On Avon, Bath, BA2 1DB
Received 28 May 19984 Forester Avenue, Bath, BA2 6QD
Received 20 May 1998Unit 1, Locksbrook Works, Locksbrook Road, Bath, BA1 3EN
Received 27 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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