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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71,448 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
14 St Anns Way, Bath, BA2 6BT
Received 7 Jun 1999Osborne House, The Avenue , Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 6DR
Received 4 Jun 19999 Highfield Close, Bath, BA2 1EQ
Received 7 Jun 1999Kingham Cottage, Summer Lane, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 7EU
Received 4 Jun 1999St James Surgery, 8 - 9 Northampton Buildings, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 2SR
Received 9 Jun 1999Westmoreland House, Westmoreland Street, Bath, BA2 3HE
Received 2 Jun 19994 Flatwoods Crescent, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AH
Received 2 Jun 1999Shaldon, 71 Greenway Lane, Bath, BA2 4LL
Received 1 Jun 1999St Johns Hospital, Chapel Court, Bath, BA1 1SL
Received 4 Jun 199915 Prospect Place, Camden Road, Bath, BA1 5JD
Received 4 Jun 199926 Pulteney Road, Bath, BA2 4EZ
Received 7 Jun 199926 Pulteney Road, Bath, BA2 4EZ
Received 7 Jun 19998 Pulteney Terrace, Bath, BA2 4HJ
Received 7 Jun 199946 Upper East Hayes, Bath, BA1 6LR
Received 9 Jun 199946 Upper East Hayes, Bath, BA1 6LR
Received 9 Jun 1999The Grove, Lyncombe Vale Road, Bath, BA2 4LR
Received 4 Jun 19997 Cavendish Crescent, Bath, BA1 2UG
Received 8 Jun 19996 Minster Way, Bath, BA2 6RQ
Received 11 Jun 1999Barclay Bank Plc, 36-38 Milsom Street, Bath, BA1 1DN
Received 10 Jun 19999 Grove Street, Bath, BA2 6PJ
Received 7 Jun 1999The Grove, Lyncombe Vale Road, Bath, BA2 4LR
Received 4 Jun 1999Westwood View Stoneleigh Park, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5TL
Received 10 Jun 1999Trevor Becker Hairdressing, 3 Saville Row, Bath, BA1 2QP
Received 11 Jun 1999Pulteney Court, Pulteney Road, Bathwick, Bath,
Received 16 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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