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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71,450 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
35 Upper Oldfield Park, Bath, BA2 3LB
Received 17 Jul 199821 Bathwick Hill, Bath, BA2 6EW
Received 17 Jul 19984 Victoria Place, Larkhall, Bath, BA1 6RW
Received 16 Jul 1998Corbin House, 13 Horseshoe Walk, Bath, BA2 6DE
Received 17 Jul 199811 Springfield Place, Bath, BA1 5RA
Received 17 Jul 1998Twerton Millenium Village Hall, Landseer Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1DX
Received 17 Jul 1998Homefield, Copseland , Bath, BA2 6EA
Received 20 Jul 1998The Squash House, Mount Road, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 5PW
Received 17 Jul 1998Godwin And Godwin, Kensington Chapel, Kensington Place, Bath, BA1 6AW
Received 14 Jul 1998Ormond Lodge, Weston Road, Bath, BA1 2XZ
Received 21 Jul 1998City Of Bath College, Avon Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1UN
Received 21 Jul 1998Safeway Stores Plc, London Road, Bath, BA1 6PT
Received 27 Jul 1998Garages To Rear Of 7, Forester Lane, Bathwick, Bath,
Received 22 Jul 19984 Fairfield View, Bath, BA1 6HX
Received 22 Jul 199811 Lambridge Place, Bath, BA1 6RU
Received 23 Jul 199810 Axbridge Road, Bath, BA2 5PW
Received 22 Jul 1998University Of Bath, University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7PB
Received 29 Jul 199853 Canons Close, Bath, BA2 2LN
Received 24 Jul 1998University Of Bath, University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7PB
Received 29 Jul 1998University Of Bath, University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7PB
Received 29 Jul 19987 Somerdale Avenue, Bath, BA2 2PG
Received 27 Jul 1998Glencairn Court, Pulteney Road, Bath, BA2 4HB
Received 29 Jul 199846-48 Moorland Road, Bath, BA2 3PN
Received 28 Jul 1998247 Bailbrook Lane, Bath, BA1 7AA
Received 28 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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