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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71,449 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
123 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5JJ
Received 25 Mar 1998Moorlands Infants School, Moorfields Road, Bath, BA2 2DQ
Received 26 Mar 1998Culverhay Secondary School, Rush Hill, Bath, BA2 2QJ
Received 26 Mar 1998Street Record, Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath,
Received 30 Mar 199861 Ridge Green Close, Bath, BA2 2EG
Received 26 Mar 1998J Sainsbury Plc, Green Park Station , Green Park Road, Bath, BA1 2DR
Received 20 Mar 1998Woodsedge, 44 Flatwoods Road, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AQ
Received 26 Mar 199883 Hansford Square, Bath, BA2 5LJ
Received 27 Mar 19986 Green Street, Bath, BA1 2JY
Received 24 Mar 19985 Union Street, Bath, BA1 1RP
Received 24 Mar 19985 Dunsford Place, Bath, BA2 6HF
Received 25 Mar 1998Charlton Court, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3ES
Received 27 Mar 19981 Cedric Close, Weston, Bath, BA1 3PQ
Received 30 Mar 19984 Union Street, Bath, BA1 1RP
Received 23 Mar 1998157 Newbridge Hill, Bath, BA1 3PX
Received 24 Mar 19983 Cedric Close, Weston, Bath, BA1 3PQ
Received 30 Mar 1998244A Bloomfield Road, Bath, BA2 2AX
Received 30 Mar 1998Browns Restaurant And Bar, Orange Grove, Bath, BA1 1LP
Received 30 Mar 199857 Canons Close, Bath, BA2 2LN
Received 1 Apr 1998Bath Rugby Plc, Recreation Ground, Great Pulteney Street, Bath, BA2 6PW
Received 30 Mar 19989 Henrietta Street, Bath, BA2 6LL
Received 1 Apr 199810 Beaufort East , Bath, BA1 6QD
Received 24 Mar 1998Browns Restaurant And Bar, Orange Grove, Bath, BA1 1LP
Received 30 Mar 19982 Prior Park Buildings, Bath, BA2 4NP
Received 3 Apr 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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