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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71,450 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Haycombe Cemetery And Crematorium, Whiteway Road, Bath
Received 23 Feb 19984 Entry Hill Gardens, Bath, BA2 5NR
Received 24 Feb 19981 Church Street, Widcombe, Bath, BA2 6AD
Received 24 Feb 199834 Sydney Buildings, Bath, BA2 6DB
Received 20 Feb 1998Street Record, Stall Street, City Centre, Bath
Received 23 Feb 199810 Marshfield Way, Bath, BA1 6HG
Received 19 Feb 1998Bailbrook House Conference And Training Centre, 39 London Road West, Bath, BA1 7HZ
Received 23 Feb 1998Paradise Hotel, 86-88 Holloway , Bath, BA2 4PX
Received 24 Feb 19981 Wood Street, Bath, BA1 2JQ
Received 25 Feb 1998Bailbrook House Conference And Training Centre, 39 London Road West, Bath, BA1 7HZ
Received 23 Feb 19983 Claude Avenue, Bath, BA2 1AE
Received 23 Feb 199825 Cedric Road, Bath, BA1 3PD
Received 20 Feb 1998Former Billets Coal Yard, High Street, Twerton On Avon, Bath
Received 23 Feb 1998Paradise Hotel, 86-88 Holloway , Bath, BA2 4PX
Received 24 Feb 199821 Sydney Buildings, Bath, BA2 6BZ
Received 23 Feb 199821 Sydney Buildings, Bath, BA2 6BZ
Received 23 Feb 199842 Bathwick Street, Bath, BA2 6PA
Received 26 Feb 1998Denewood Lodge, 85 London Road West, Bath, BA1 7JE
Received 2 Mar 199828 Fairfield Avenue, Bath, BA1 6NH
Received 26 Feb 199814 Penn Lea Road, Bath, BA1 3RA
Received 25 Feb 199821 Whitewells Road, Bath, BA1 6NZ
Received 25 Feb 19985 Dunsford Place, Bath, BA2 6HF
Received 26 Feb 19982 Widcombe Crescent, Bath, BA2 6AH
Received 27 Feb 19984 Abbey View, Bath, BA2 6DG
Received 26 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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