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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71,448 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Alice House, The Elms, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7BP
Received 1 Jul 199910 Woodlands Park, Bath, BA1 7BQ
Received 1 Jul 199938 Park Street, Bath, BA1 2TD
Received 12 Jul 1999188 North Road, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5DN
Received 15 Jul 199928 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 1DG
Received 16 Jul 199973 Forester Avenue, Bath, BA2 6QB
Received 15 Jul 199920 Partis Way, Bath, BA1 3QG
Received 15 Jul 19994 Union Street, Bath, BA1 1RP
Received 16 Jul 1999Barclays Bank Plc, 1 Manvers Street, Bath, BA1 1JQ
Received 15 Jul 19994 Union Street, Bath, BA1 1RP
Received 16 Jul 199910 Marlborough Buildings, Bath, BA1 2LX
Received 15 Jul 1999Rowan Edge, Westfield Close, Bath, BA2 2EA
Received 15 Jul 199928 St James's Square, Bath, BA1 2TT
Received 19 Jul 199937 Westgate Street, Bath, BA1 1EL
Received 15 Jul 199914 Drake Avenue, Bath, BA2 5NX
Received 15 Jul 199936 - 37 Westgate Street, Bath, BA1 1EL
Received 15 Jul 1999Star Inn, 23 Vineyards, Bath, BA1 5NA
Received 14 Jul 1999Star Inn, 23 Vineyards, Bath, BA1 5NA
Received 15 Jul 1999Barclays Bank Plc, 1 Manvers Street, Bath, BA1 1JQ
Received 15 Jul 199927 Combe Road, Bath, BA2 5HY
Received 16 Jul 199928 Upper Borough Walls, Bath, BA1 1RG
Received 19 Jul 1999Monkton Combe Junior School, Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 7ET
Received 16 Jul 1999University Of Bath, University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7PB
Received 16 Jul 1999Basement Flat, 9 Raby Place, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 4EH
Received 15 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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