Understanding planning · 13 min read
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71,450 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Victoria House, Weston Road, Bath, BA1 2XY
Received 7 Jul 1998Lawrence House, Lower Bristol Road, Bath, BA2 9ES
Received 3 Jul 1998Guildhall, High Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 5AW
Received 8 Jul 1998Trundlers, Upper Lansdown Mews, Bath, BA1 5HF
Received 7 Jul 1998Guildhall, High Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 5AW
Received 8 Jul 199814 Prior Park Buildings, Bath, BA2 4NP
Received 7 Jul 1998Communal Building, Ballance Street, Lansdown, Bath,
Received 8 Jul 199814 Prior Park Buildings, Bath, BA2 4NP
Received 7 Jul 1998Co-operative Funeral Service, Pulteney Road, Bath, BA2 4HP
Received 8 Jul 1998Bath Spa Hotel, Sydney Road, Bath, BA2 6NU
Received 8 Jul 19982B, Combe Road, Bath, BA2 5HZ
Received 10 Jul 19985 Lower East Hayes , Bath, BA1 6AN
Received 13 Jul 199816-18 Queen Square, Bath, BA1 2HN
Received 13 Jul 19981 Combe Road Close, Bath, BA2 5JG
Received 8 Jul 199869 Rush Hill, Bath, BA2 2QT
Received 10 Jul 19988 Lansdown Place East , Bath, BA1 5ET
Received 13 Jul 1998Abbey Church House, Westgate Buildings, Bath, BA1 1EE
Received 7 Jul 199860 Napier Road, Bath, BA1 4LW
Received 15 Jul 19983 Avondale Road, Bath, BA1 3EG
Received 14 Jul 19987 Lansdown Heights, Lansdown, Bath
Received 11 Jul 1998Abbey Church House, Westgate Buildings, Bath, BA1 1EE
Received 7 Jul 1998Millmead Motors Ltd, Lower Bristol Road, Bath, BA2 3DR
Received 14 Jul 1998Little Claverton, Bathwick Hill, Bath, BA2 6EN
Received 11 Jul 19986 The Firs , Bath, BA2 5ED
Received 9 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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