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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71,448 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
46 Cranwells Park, Weston, Bath, BA1 2YE
Received 22 Oct 199848 Rudmore Park, Bath, BA1 3JA
Received 23 Oct 1998The Harvester, Gloucester Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7BW
Received 21 Oct 199815 New Bond Street, Bath, BA1 1BA
Received 26 Oct 199830 Down Avenue, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5QJ
Received 22 Oct 199895 Bradford Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5BR
Received 22 Oct 1998Motor Services (Bath) Ltd, Locksbrook Road, Bath, BA1 3EU
Received 26 Oct 19984 York Place, London Road, Walcot, Bath, BA1 6AE
Received 26 Oct 199821 Weatherly Avenue, Bath, BA2 2PF
Received 26 Oct 199825 Northampton Street, Bath, BA1 2SW
Received 21 Oct 199823 Holly Drive, Odd Down, Bath, BA2 2BT
Received 26 Oct 199875 Rosewell Court, Bath, BA1 2AQ
Received 26 Oct 1998Regency Laundry Services, Lower Bristol Road, Bath, BA2 3BX
Received 26 Oct 1998Fiesole, Bathwick Hill, Bath, BA2 6JZ
Received 19 Oct 1998Fiesole, Bathwick Hill, Bath, BA2 6JZ
Received 19 Oct 1998Smile Stores, 24 Brock Street, Bath, BA1 2LN
Received 23 Oct 199830 Richmond Place, Bath, BA1 5QA
Received 23 Oct 199818 Lansdown Crescent, Bath, BA1 5EX
Received 22 Oct 199839 Combe Park, Bath, BA1 3NR
Received 29 Oct 1998Berkeley House, Snow Hill, Bath, BA1 6DG
Received 28 Oct 199819 Grosvenor Bridge Road, Bath, BA1 6BB
Received 27 Oct 199818 Lansdown Crescent, Bath, BA1 5EX
Received 22 Oct 1998The Old Bakehouse, 3 Lambridge Buildings Mews, Larkhall, Bath, BA1 6QY
Received 28 Oct 1998Norfolk Crescent Open Space, Norfolk Crescent, Kingsmead, Bath,
Received 29 Oct 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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