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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
71,448 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
3 Devonshire Place, Bath, BA2 4SW
Received 21 Sept 199822 Green Park, Bath, BA1 1HZ
Received 18 Sept 199822 Green Park, Bath, BA1 1HZ
Received 18 Sept 1998Combe Down Express (formerly Glasshouse Service Station), Midford Road, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5RU
Received 18 Sept 1998Little Chef, Lower Bristol Road, Bath, BA2 9ES
Received 18 Sept 1998244A Bloomfield Road, Bath, BA2 2AX
Received 18 Sept 199843 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 1DN
Received 23 Sept 199810 Warwick Road, Bath, BA1 3EB
Received 21 Sept 1998Weymouth House, Beechen Cliff Road, Bath, BA2 4QS
Received 18 Sept 199816 Crescent Gardens, Bath, BA1 2NA
Received 18 Sept 1998Koryu, 7 Pulteney Gardens, Bath, BA2 4HG
Received 22 Sept 199820 North Road, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5DQ
Received 22 Sept 199817 Caroline Buildings, Bath, BA2 4JH
Received 21 Sept 199817 Caroline Buildings, Bath, BA2 4JH
Received 21 Sept 1998139 Old Frome Road, Bath, BA2 5RH
Received 21 Sept 199863 Entry Hill, Bath, BA2 5LX
Received 24 Sept 199879 Ivy Avenue, Bath, BA2 1AW
Received 24 Sept 1998Theatre Royal, Sawclose, Bath, BA1 1ET
Received 24 Sept 199818 Wellington Buildings, Bath, BA1 4EP
Received 24 Sept 199843 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 1DN
Received 30 Sept 199821 Marlborough Buildings, Bath, BA1 2LY
Received 30 Sept 1998110 Frome Road, Bath, BA2 2PP
Received 30 Sept 19983 Cambridge Terrace, Bath, BA2 6BE
Received 29 Sept 199828 Leighton Road, Bath, BA1 4NE
Received 29 Sept 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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