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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71,450 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Garage Block Opposite 43, Penn Lea Road, Lower Weston, Bath, BA1 3RQ
Received 24 Jul 199810 Oldfield Road, Bath, BA2 3ND
Received 28 Jul 1998Central Wine Bar, 10 Upper Borough Walls, City Centre, Bath, BA1 1RG
Received 23 Jul 1998Zion Free Methodist Church, High Street, Twerton On Avon, Bath, BA2 1BZ
Received 24 Jul 1998Abercorn House, 38 St James's Park, Bath, BA1 2SU
Received 24 Jul 199811 Daniel Street, Bath, BA2 6NB
Received 27 Jul 1998Audley Cottage, 28 Audley Park Road, Bath, BA1 2XN
Received 22 Jul 1998Safeway Stores Plc, London Road, Bath, BA1 6PT
Received 27 Jul 1998Bath Rugby Plc, Recreation Ground, Great Pulteney Street, Bath, BA2 6PW
Received 28 Jul 1998Bath Rugby Plc, Recreation Ground, Great Pulteney Street, Bath, BA2 6PW
Received 28 Jul 1998Bath Rugby Plc, Recreation Ground, Great Pulteney Street, Bath, BA2 6PW
Received 31 Jul 1998YMCA, International House, Broad Street Place, Bath, BA1 5LH
Received 27 Jul 1998Sterling House, Upper Bristol Road, Lower Weston, Bath, BA1 3AN
Received 30 Jul 1998Street Record, Lansdown Heights, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset
Received 30 Jul 1998Prior Park, Ralph Allen Drive, Bath, BA2 5AH
Received 31 Jul 1998Toad Abode, Toll Bridge Road, Bath, BA1 7DE
Received 27 Jul 199810 Malvern Buildings, Bath, BA1 6JX
Received 3 Aug 19984 Longthorne Place, Bath, BA2 5LY
Received 29 Jul 199842 Georgian View, Bath, BA2 2LZ
Received 28 Jul 1998The Podium , Northgate Street, Bath
Received 31 Jul 1998Part Of Former Railway Used As Car Park, Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath,
Received 29 Jul 199814 Charlcombe Way, Bath, BA1 6JZ
Received 31 Jul 1998206 Newbridge Road, Bath, BA1 3LF
Received 30 Jul 199820 Circus , Bath, BA1 2EU
Received 29 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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