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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
71,446 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
3 Stanley Villas, Camden Road, Bath, BA1 5JE
Received 4 Aug 19992 Princes Buildings, Bath, BA1 2ED
Received 5 Aug 19993 Stanley Villas, Camden Road, Bath, BA1 5JE
Received 4 Aug 1999Car Park Adjoining, All Saints Place, Bath, BA2 6DU
Received 11 Aug 19992 Princes Buildings, Bath, BA1 2ED
Received 4 Aug 1999Ministry Of Defence (Ensleigh), Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5AB
Received 18 Aug 1999197 Southdown Road, Bath, BA2 1HR
Received 10 Aug 1999Millhouse Audi, Prior Park Road, Bath, BA2 4NF
Received 2 Aug 199916 Englishcombe Lane, Bath, BA2 2ED
Received 13 Aug 19997 Camden Crescent, Bath, BA1 5HY
Received 6 Aug 19995 Oriel Gardens, Bath, BA1 7AS
Received 10 Aug 19996 Macaulay Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, BA2 6AS
Received 2 Aug 19991 Somerdale View, Bath, BA2 2QQ
Received 13 Aug 1999Fiesole, Bathwick Hill, Bath, BA2 6JZ
Received 9 Aug 1999Bath Spa Hotel, Sydney Road, Bath, BA2 6NU
Received 18 Aug 1999Street Record, Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath
Received 10 Aug 1999Car Park Area Adjacent To 19, Burlington Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2SB
Received 21 Jul 1999Parish Centre, 5 Harley Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2SF
Received 27 Jul 1999Units A And B, Weston Lock Retail Park, Lower Bristol Road, Bath, BA2 1ES
Received 9 Aug 19991 Riverside Court, St John's Road, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 6PD
Received 17 Aug 1999163-165 Rush Hill, Bath, BA2 2QZ
Received 11 Aug 199963 Prior Park Road, Bath, BA2 4NF
Received 16 Aug 199932 Malvern Buildings, Bath, BA1 6JX
Received 13 Aug 199919 Rivers Street, Bath, BA1 2QA
Received 12 Aug 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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