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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71,450 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
18-19 Monmouth Place, City Centre, Bath, BA1 2AY
Received 31 Jul 1998Lansdown Lodge, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5EG
Received 30 Jul 1998The Recreation Ground, Great Pulteney Street, Bath, BA2 6PW
Received 24 Jul 1998Lansdown Lodge, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5EG
Received 30 Jul 199880 London Road West, Bath, BA1 7DA
Received 27 Jul 1998The Royal School, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5TA
Received 30 Jul 1998Godwin And Godwin, Kensington Chapel, Kensington Place, Bath, BA1 6AW
Received 14 Jul 1998The Royal School, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5TA
Received 30 Jul 199821 Queenwood Avenue, Bath, BA1 6EU
Received 28 Jul 1998Frome House, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1EY
Received 31 Jul 19984 Cambridge Place, Bath, BA2 6AB
Received 3 Aug 19984 Cambridge Place, Bath, BA2 6AB
Received 3 Aug 1998290 Bloomfield Road, Bath, BA2 2NZ
Received 3 Aug 1998Abercorn House, 38 St James's Park, Bath, BA1 2SU
Received 4 Aug 1998Geological Society, Unit, 7 Brassmill Enterprise Centre, Brassmill Lane, Bath, BA1 3JN
Received 3 Aug 199825 Prospect Place, Camden Road, Bath, BA1 5JD
Received 3 Aug 1998Rose Cottage, 4 Vellore Lane, Bath, BA2 6JQ
Received 5 Aug 1998Living Stones Coffee Shop Ltd, 17 Livingstone Road, Bath, BA2 3PH
Received 4 Aug 19984 Beaufort Villas, Bath, BA1 6LY
Received 5 Aug 1998Cumberland Villa, 2 Bathwick Hill, Bath, BA2 6EP
Received 4 Aug 199854 Sydney Buildings, Bath, BA2 6DB
Received 7 Aug 19982 Prior Park Buildings, Bath, BA2 4NP
Received 10 Aug 199836 Broad Street, Bath, BA1 5LP
Received 5 Aug 1998Zion Free Methodist Church, High Street, Twerton On Avon, Bath, BA2 1BZ
Received 5 Aug 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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