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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71,450 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
8 Ainslies Belvedere , Bath, BA1 5HT
Received 13 Feb 1998Mcdonalds Weston Lock Retail, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1EP
Received 12 Feb 19982/3, Byfield Place, Bath, BA2 5JB
Received 10 Feb 1998Countess Of Huntingdon Centre, Vineyards, Bath, BA1 5NA
Received 11 Feb 19982 Russell Street, Bath, BA1 2QF
Received 13 Feb 199854 Bloomfield Park, Bath, BA2 2BX
Received 16 Feb 199854 Bloomfield Park, Bath, BA2 2BX
Received 16 Feb 1998Mcdonalds, Weston Lock Retail Park, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, BA2 1EP
Received 12 Feb 19981 South Parade, Bath, BA2 4AA
Received 16 Feb 1998Riverside Cafe, 17 Argyle Street, Bath, BA2 4BQ
Received 16 Feb 199844 Stall Street, Bath, BA1 1QH
Received 16 Feb 19984 Marlborough Street, Bath, BA1 2TX
Received 17 Feb 199814 Dorchester Street, Bath, BA1 1SS
Received 16 Feb 199821 Denmark Road, Bath, BA2 3RE
Received 17 Feb 19981 Burleigh Gardens, Bath, BA1 3RR
Received 20 Feb 1998Mast, Corston View, Bloomfield, Bath, BA2 2PJ
Received 18 Feb 19985 Beau Street, Bath, BA1 1QY
Received 20 Feb 199812 Johnstone Street, Bath, BA2 4DH
Received 19 Feb 199827 Rockliffe Avenue, Bath, BA2 6QP
Received 20 Feb 199846 Rivers Street, Bath, BA1 2QA
Received 20 Feb 19987 Abbey View, Bath, BA2 6DG
Received 20 Feb 19982 Russell Street, Bath, BA1 2QF
Received 13 Feb 1998St Mark's Closed Burial Ground, St Mark's Road, Widcombe, Bath,
Received 24 Feb 1998Public Toilets, London Road Car Park, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7NB
Received 23 Feb 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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