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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71,448 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Albion Buildings, Upper Bristol Road, Lower Weston, Bath, BA1 3AR
Received 29 Apr 199924A Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BU
Received 29 Apr 1999The Elms, Weston Park West , Bath, BA1 4AR
Received 28 Apr 19992 Beaufort East , Bath, BA1 6QD
Received 5 Mar 1999The Elms, Weston Park West , Bath, BA1 4AR
Received 28 Apr 1999Havercroft, St Stephens Road, Bath, BA1 5PH
Received 30 Apr 19993 Stall Street, Bath, BA1 1QL
Received 4 May 19993 Stall Street, Bath, BA1 1QL
Received 4 May 1999Oldfield School, Kelston Road, Bath, BA1 9AB
Received 29 Apr 1999Combe Down Express (formerly Glasshouse Service Station), Midford Road, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5RU
Received 4 May 199910 Edward Street, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 4DU
Received 29 Apr 199942 Rivers Street, Bath, BA1 2QA
Received 4 May 1999Telecommunication Mast 33722, The Avenue, Claverton Down, Bath,
Received 4 May 1999136A Walcot Street, Bath, BA1 5BG
Received 4 May 19992 The Havory , Bath, BA1 6RR
Received 6 May 1999St Andrews CEVA Primary School, Northampton Street, Bath, BA1 2SN
Received 7 May 19992 Southbourne Gardens, Bath, BA1 6LZ
Received 6 May 199970 Shakespeare Avenue, Bath, BA2 4RG
Received 11 May 1999Waldegrave House, Waldegrave Road, Bath, BA1 5SL
Received 10 May 1999Fonthill Cottage, 14 Gladstone Road, Bath, BA2 5HJ
Received 6 May 1999Landscaped Verge West Of Valley View Close, Valley View Road, Charlcombe, Bath,
Received 10 May 1999Travis Perkins Trading Co Ltd, Hill Leigh (bath) Ltd, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, BA2 3EE
Received 7 May 199911 Broad Street, Bath, BA1 5LJ
Received 5 May 199926-27 Milsom Street, Bath, BA1 1DG
Received 6 May 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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