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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
71,448 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
11 Brookfield Park, Bath, BA1 4JE
Received 10 Dec 199827 Mayfield Road, Bath, BA2 3QA
Received 10 Dec 19982 Darlington Mews, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EW
Received 11 Dec 199859 Upper Oldfield Park, Bath, BA2 3LB
Received 9 Dec 19989, Abbey Court, Edward Street, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 4DX
Received 11 Dec 1998Bath Slabs, The Smallholdings, Claude Avenue, Twerton, Bath,
Received 10 Dec 19987 Fuller Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, BA1 7BB
Received 14 Dec 199844-48 Southgate , Bath, BA1 1TG
Received 10 Dec 1998The Hollies, Hatfield Road, Bath, BA2 2BD
Received 11 Dec 1998Brownsword Cricket Ground, Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath
Received 10 Dec 199883 The Oval, Bath, BA2 2HE
Received 11 Dec 199823 Audley Grove, Bath, BA1 3BT
Received 11 Dec 19983 Gloster Villas, Bath, BA1 5ND
Received 14 Dec 199823 Richmond Place, Bath, BA1 5PZ
Received 11 Dec 1998The Shrubbery, Upper Camden Place, Bath, BA1 5HX
Received 11 Dec 19982 Abbey View, Bath, BA2 6DG
Received 11 Dec 1998Guildhall, High Street, Bath, BA1 5AW
Received 10 Dec 199897-101 Walcot Street, Bath, BA1 5BW
Received 17 Dec 199815 Daniel Street, Bath, BA2 6NB
Received 14 Dec 1998Bloomfield Riding Centre, Bloomfield Road, Bath, BA2 2BA
Received 14 Dec 199855 New King Street, Bath, BA1 2BN
Received 15 Dec 1998East Twerton Post Office, 10 St Peters Terrace, Bath, BA2 3BU
Received 21 Dec 199825 Belvedere, Bath, BA1 5ED
Received 21 Dec 1998Kingswood Preparatory School, College Road, Bath, BA1 5SD
Received 17 Dec 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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