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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71,448 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
4 Lower Camden Place, Bath, BA1 5JJ
Received 27 Jul 199932 Wellsway, Bath, BA2 2AA
Received 20 Jul 199911 Argyle Street, Bath, BA2 4BQ
Received 8 Jul 1999Street Record, The Corridor, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset
Received 16 Jul 19994 Egerton Road, Bath, BA2 2DP
Received 27 Jul 1999Street Record, The Corridor, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset
Received 16 Jul 1999138 North Road, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5DL
Received 26 Jul 199922 Stall Street, Bath, BA1 1QF
Received 26 Jul 19991-4 New Bond Street, Bath, BA1 1BE
Received 26 Jul 19993-4 The Corridor , Bath, BA1 5AP
Received 27 Jul 19993-4 The Corridor , Bath, BA1 5AP
Received 27 Jul 199911 Upper Borough Walls, Bath, BA1 1RG
Received 27 Jul 1999Mount Haviland, Lansdown Lane, Weston, Bath, BA1 4NB
Received 28 Jul 1999British Telecom, Kingsmead Telephone Exchange, Monmouth Street, Bath, BA1 4ND
Received 28 Jul 19997 West Lea Road, Bath, BA1 3RL
Received 29 Jul 1999Royal York Hotel, 1 York Buildings, George Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 2EB
Received 30 Jul 19992 Homelea Park West , Bath, BA1 3HR
Received 30 Jul 19994 Woodland Place, Bath, BA2 6EH
Received 29 Jul 19991 York Buildings, George Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2EB
Received 2 Aug 19991 Church Street, Widcombe, Bath, BA2 6AD
Received 29 Jul 19991 Church Street, Widcombe, Bath, BA2 6AD
Received 29 Jul 199916 St Marks Road, Bath, BA2 4PA
Received 28 Jul 19995 Caroline Place, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5HU
Received 28 Jul 199916 St Marks Road, Bath, BA2 4PA
Received 28 Jul 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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