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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71,448 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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 Royal Crescent, Bath, BA1 2LR
Received 17 May 19992 Royal Crescent, Bath, BA1 2LR
Received 17 May 199936 Trinity Road, Bath, BA2 5AB
Received 21 May 19996A Upper Camden Place, Bath, BA1 5HX
Received 20 May 19996A Upper Camden Place, Bath, BA1 5HX
Received 20 May 1999North Parade House, 12A North Parade, Bath, BA2 4AL
Received 7 May 19995 Northampton Street, Bath, BA1 2SN
Received 21 May 19994 Grosvenor Place, Bath, BA1 6AX
Received 24 May 1999Origins, 12 New Bond Street, Bath, BA1 1BE
Received 25 May 1999Bath Spa Complex, Bath Street, Bath, BA1 1SA
Received 6 May 1999Bath Spa Complex, Bath Street, Bath, BA1 1SA
Received 6 May 199914 South Lea Road, Bath, BA1 3RW
Received 24 May 199927 Lynfield Park, Bath, BA1 4ER
Received 21 May 1999University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY
Received 25 May 1999Royal United Hospital, Combe Park, Bath, BA1 3NG
Received 24 May 199974 Circus Mews, Bath,
Received 25 May 19998 Royal Crescent, Bath, BA1 2LR
Received 24 May 19998 Royal Crescent, Bath, BA1 2LR
Received 24 May 1999Theatre Royal, Sawclose, Bath, BA1 1ET
Received 21 May 199935 Upper Oldfield Park, Bath, BA2 3LB
Received 24 May 19997 Chatham Row, Bath, BA1 5BS
Received 24 May 1999170 Bloomfield Road, Bath, BA2 2AT
Received 26 May 199925 Belvedere, Bath, BA1 5ED
Received 24 May 19991 Sunnybank, Bath, BA2 4NA
Received 28 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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