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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
71,449 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Cleveland Bridge, Cleveland Bridge, Bathwick, Bath, BA1 5DH
Received 4 Mar 199824 Belmore Gardens, Bath, BA2 1HU
Received 9 Mar 199811 Southstoke Road, Bath, BA2 5SJ
Received 6 Mar 199826A Shaftesbury Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3LJ
Received 6 Mar 1998202 Bloomfield Road, Bath, BA2 2AX
Received 9 Mar 1998Smiles Local Store 2A Rivers Street Place, City Centre, Bath, BA1 2RS
Received 9 Mar 1998Cooperative Retail Services, 112 Mount Road, Southdown, Bath, BA2 1LN
Received 11 Mar 1998Bath Rugby Plc, Recreation Ground, Great Pulteney Street, Bath, BA2 6PW
Received 9 Mar 199824 Mount Road, Southdown, Bath, BA2 1LD
Received 12 Mar 1998133 Bradford Road, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5BS
Received 12 Mar 199868 Great Pulteney Street, Bath, BA2 4DL
Received 12 Mar 199811 Argyle Street, Bath, BA2 4BQ
Received 13 Mar 1998Starbucks Coffee Company, 13 Old Bond Street, Bath, BA1 1BP
Received 10 Mar 1998The Squash House, Mount Road, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 5PW
Received 11 Mar 1998Starbucks Coffee Company, 13 Old Bond Street, Bath, BA1 1BP
Received 10 Mar 1998Top Shop, 50-53 Southgate , Bath, BA1 1TG
Received 12 Mar 1998Ministry Of Defence, Warminster Road, Bathampton, Bath, BA1 5AA
Received 18 Mar 1998Haycombe Cemetery And Crematorium, Whiteway Road, Bath
Received 16 Mar 19983 Lime Grove, Bath, BA2 4HF
Received 16 Mar 19985 Lansdown Park, Bath, BA1 5TG
Received 18 Mar 1998St James Surgery, 8 - 9 Northampton Buildings, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 2SR
Received 18 Mar 199868 Great Pulteney Street, Bath, BA2 4DL
Received 17 Mar 1998The Moorings, Sydney Wharf, Bath, BA2 4EF
Received 18 Mar 1998Albion Buildings, Upper Bristol Road, Lower Weston, Bath, BA1 3AR
Received 13 Mar 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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