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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71,448 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
19 Gay Street, Bath, BA1 2DP
Received 11 Jun 1999129 Fairfield Park Road, Bath, BA1 6JS
Received 14 Jun 199934 Shakespeare Avenue, Bath, BA2 4RF
Received 16 Jun 199916 Camden Crescent, Bath, BA1 5HY
Received 15 Jun 19994 Alfred Street, Bath, BA1 2QU
Received 15 Jun 1999Guildhall, High Street, Bath, BA1 5AW
Received 9 Jun 1999University Of Bath, University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7PB
Received 16 Jun 1999Clare Cottage, Winifreds Lane, Bath, BA1 5SE
Received 11 Jun 19994 Victoria Terrace, Bath, BA2 3QZ
Received 17 Jun 1999The Gap, 18-19 Old Bond Street, Bath, BA1 1BP
Received 17 Jun 19994 Grosvenor Place, Bath, BA1 6AX
Received 15 Jun 199964 Newbridge Road, Bath, BA1 3LA
Received 14 Jun 199921 Brock Street, Bath, BA1 2LW
Received 11 Jun 19995 Balustrade , Bath, BA1 6QA
Received 17 Jun 19995 Balustrade , Bath, BA1 6QA
Received 17 Jun 19991 Little Stanhope Street, Bath, BA1 2BH
Received 14 Jun 199957 Canons Close, Bath, BA2 2LN
Received 21 Jun 199929 Victoria Buildings, Bath, BA2 3EH
Received 17 Jun 19995 Darlington Road, Bath, BA2 6NL
Received 18 Jun 1999Bath Opportunity Playgroup, Rosemary Lodge, Wellsway, Bath, BA2 5RL
Received 22 Jun 199918 Westgate Street, Bath, BA1 1EQ
Received 22 Jun 199922 Stall Street, Bath, BA1 1QF
Received 15 Jun 1999Street Record, Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset
Received 21 Jun 19999 Bloomfield Grove, Bath, BA2 2BZ
Received 23 Jun 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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