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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71,448 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bath College, Avon Street, Bath, BA1 1UN
Received 1 Jul 19997 Devonshire Villas, Bath, BA2 4SX
Received 30 Jun 1999Origins, 12 New Bond Street, Bath, BA1 1BE
Received 28 Jun 199930-31 Crescent Gardens, Kingsmead, Bath, BA1 2NB
Received 30 Jun 1999Green Park Station , Green Park Road, Bath
Received 5 Jul 1999St Martin's Hospital, Midford Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5RP
Received 2 Jul 19999 Upper Oldfield Park, Bath, BA2 3JX
Received 1 Jul 1999Green Park Station , Green Park Road, Bath
Received 5 Jul 199917-18 Milsom Street, Bath, BA1 1DE
Received 1 Jul 199917-18 Milsom Street, Bath, BA1 1DE
Received 1 Jul 19999-10 Bath Street, Bath, BA1 1SN
Received 2 Jul 199911-13 Alfred Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 2QX
Received 2 Jul 199911-13 Alfred Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 2QX
Received 5 Jul 1999St Michaels Surgery, Walwyn Close, Bath, BA2 1SZ
Received 30 Jun 199936 Charlcombe Lane, Larkhall, Bath, BA1 6NS
Received 7 Jul 1999150 Bloomfield Road, Bath, BA2 2AT
Received 5 Jul 19998 Clare Gardens, Odd Down, Bath, BA2 2SD
Received 6 Jul 199963 Entry Hill, Bath, BA2 5LX
Received 7 Jul 19991 Upper Albert Cottage, Farrs Lane, Bath, BA2 5DT
Received 6 Jul 1999Beazer House, Lower Bristol Road, Bath, BA2 3EY
Received 5 Jul 1999Combe House, Cleevedale Road, Bath, BA2 5QS
Received 8 Jul 1999The Glade (was The Crest), Shaft Road, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 7HP
Received 8 Jul 199932 Upper East Hayes, Bath, BA1 6LP
Received 7 Jul 1999150 Bloomfield Road, Bath, BA2 2AT
Received 5 Jul 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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