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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71,448 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 The Ginnels, The Avenue, Timsbury, Bath, BA2 0HU
Received 21 Dec 1998Monks Cottage, North Stoke Lane, North Stoke, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9AT
Received 21 Dec 199818 Sion Road, Bath, BA1 5SG
Received 28 Apr 1999Hertz (uk) Limited, Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DT
Received 26 Apr 19997 Highbury Terrace, Bath, BA1 6DS
Received 28 Apr 199975 Great Pulteney Street, Bath, BA2 4DL
Received 19 Apr 199952 Landseer Road, Twerton, Bath, BA2 1DX
Received 19 Apr 1999Lynbrook Cottages, Lynbrook Lane, Bath, BA2 5NB
Received 21 Apr 1999Former T A Centre (Now 1-24 Victoria Bridge Court), Upper Bristol Road, Bath, BA1 3AF
Received 20 Apr 199969 North Road, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5DF
Received 28 Apr 1999Royal High School, Lansdown Road, Bath
Received 20 Apr 19994 Prior Park Buildings, Bath, BA2 4NP
Received 27 Apr 1999Millhouse Audi, Prior Park Road, Bath, BA2 4NF
Received 22 Apr 1999Millhouse Audi, Prior Park Road, Bath, BA2 4NF
Received 22 Apr 199975 Great Pulteney Street, Bath, BA2 4DL
Received 19 Apr 19994 Prior Park Buildings, Bath, BA2 4NP
Received 27 Apr 199911 Lansdown Crescent, Bath, BA1 5EX
Received 26 Apr 1999Greenways, Widcombe Hill, Bath, BA2 6AR
Received 28 Apr 19995 Ainslies Belvedere , Bath, BA1 5HT
Received 19 Apr 1999The Maltings River Place, Lower Bristol Road, Bath, BA2 1EP
Received 21 Apr 1999Parade Gardens, Grand Parade, Bath, BA2 4DF
Received 27 Apr 1999The Maltings River Place, Lower Bristol Road, Bath, BA2 1EP
Received 21 Apr 1999Assembly Antique Centre, 5-8 Saville Row, Bath, BA1 2QP
Received 28 Apr 199924A Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BU
Received 28 Apr 1999Records 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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