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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71,450 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Balustrade , Bath, BA1 6QA
Received 26 Jun 199887 Fairfield Park Road, Bath, BA1 6JR
Received 1 Jul 199839 Bathwick Street, Bath, BA2 6PA
Received 2 Jul 199821 New Bond Street, Bath, BA1 1BA
Received 30 Jun 199821 New Bond Street, Bath, BA1 1BA
Received 20 Jun 199810 Clare Gardens, Odd Down, Bath, BA2 2SD
Received 29 Jun 19981 Stirtingale Road, Bath, BA2 2NF
Received 2 Jul 19983 Chelsea Road, Bath, BA1 3DU
Received 3 Jul 19985 Malvern Buildings, Bath, BA1 6JX
Received 3 Jul 1998Camden Mill, 230 Lower Bristol Road, Bath, BA2 3DQ
Received 30 Jun 1998Halfords, 7 - 9 Westgate Buildings, City Centre, Bath, BA1 1EF
Received 30 Jun 199824/26, Blackmore Drive, Bath, BA2 2JW
Received 3 Jul 199813 Pera Place, Bath, BA1 5NX
Received 29 Jun 1998Redroofs, Hawarden Terrace, Bath, BA1 6RE
Received 3 Jul 199814 Penn Lea Road, Bath, BA1 3RA
Received 6 Jul 19982 Winifreds Dale, Cavendish Road, Bath, BA1 2UD
Received 6 Jul 19989 Lansdown Crescent, Bath, BA1 5EX
Received 3 Jul 19989 Lansdown Crescent, Bath, BA1 5EX
Received 3 Jul 1998Safeway Stores Plc, London Road, Bath, BA1 6PT
Received 17 Jun 199835-37 London Road West, Bath, BA1 7HZ
Received 9 Jul 1998St Marks School, Bay Tree Road, Bath, BA1 6ND
Received 8 Jul 1998Chameleon Court, Lower Bristol Road, Bath, BA2 9ES
Received 24 Jun 19985-6 Charlotte Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 2NE
Received 8 Jul 1998Homebase Store & Garden Centre, Pines Way, Bath, BA2 3ET
Received 3 Jul 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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