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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71,449 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
99 Fairfield Park Road, Bath, BA1 6JR
Received 24 Apr 199833 Sladebrook Avenue, Bath, BA2 2LB
Received 22 Apr 1998Widcombe Manor, Church Street, Widcombe, Bath, BA2 6AZ
Received 24 Apr 1998Garages Adjoining, 114 Hillcrest Drive, Bath
Received 24 Apr 1998152 Haycombe Drive, Bath, BA2 1PW
Received 23 Apr 199886 Broadmoor Lane, Weston, Bath, BA1 4LB
Received 23 Apr 199814 Royal Crescent, Bath, BA1 2LR
Received 27 Apr 1998St Swithins Yard, Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 5BG
Received 24 Apr 1998St Swithins Yard, Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 5BG
Received 29 Apr 199823 Daniel Street, Bath, BA2 6ND
Received 23 Apr 199844-45 Milsom Street, Bath, BA1 1DN
Received 24 Apr 199810 Caroline Buildings, Bath, BA2 4JH
Received 20 Apr 19985 Meadow Drive, Bath, BA2 2BU
Received 29 Apr 199814 Audley Grove, Bath, BA1 3BS
Received 29 Apr 1998Prior Park College, Ralph Allen Drive, Bath, BA2 5AH
Received 30 Apr 199816 Daffords Buildings, Bath, BA1 6SG
Received 27 Apr 199816 Daffords Buildings, Bath, BA1 6SG
Received 27 Apr 19981 Lansdown Terrace, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 5EF
Received 28 Apr 199897-101 Walcot Street, Bath, BA1 5BW
Received 24 Apr 199811 Argyle Street, Bath, BA2 4BQ
Received 27 Apr 1998Old Bakery, Jews Lane, Twerton On Avon, Bath, BA2 1BE
Received 28 Apr 199897-101 Walcot Street, Bath, BA1 5BW
Received 24 Apr 1998King William IV Public House, 54 Combe Road, Bath, BA2 5HY
Received 5 May 19981 Hawthorn Grove, Bath, BA2 5QA
Received 6 May 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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