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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71,448 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1-4 New Bond Street, Bath, BA1 1BE
Received 16 Jul 1999Valley View, 9 Rosemount Lane, Bath, BA2 4NE
Received 19 Jul 1999117 High Street, Twerton On Avon, Bath, BA2 1DA
Received 19 Jul 19992 Catharine Place, Bath, BA1 2PR
Received 16 Jul 199933 Brock Street, Bath, BA1 2LN
Received 21 Jul 1999Cavendish Villa, Cavendish Road, Bath, BA1 2UD
Received 21 Jul 1999George's Hotel, 2-3 South Parade, Bath, BA2 4AA
Received 19 Jul 1999George's Hotel, 2-3 South Parade, Bath, BA2 4AA
Received 19 Jul 1999The Bohaus (formerly Known Of The Roast House), 10 Weymouth Street, Bath, BA1 6AG
Received 16 Jul 19995 Beaufort East , Bath, BA1 6QD
Received 19 Jul 19995 Beaufort East , Bath, BA1 6QD
Received 19 Jul 1999Ministry Of Defence, Warminster Road, Bathampton, Bath, BA1 5AA
Received 19 Jul 199928 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 1DG
Received 20 Jul 19994 Alfred Street, Bath, BA1 2QU
Received 16 Jul 19995 Grosvenor Place, Bath, BA1 6AX
Received 19 Jul 199916 Leighton Road, Bath, BA1 4NE
Received 21 Jul 19999 Wiltshire Way, Bath, BA1 6NW
Received 19 Jul 1999Kingsmead Motor Co Ltd, Redbridge House And Stothert And Pitt House, Lower Bristol Road, Bath
Received 22 Jul 199926 Audley Avenue, Bath, BA1 3BL
Received 23 Jul 199918 Russell Street, Bath, BA1 2QF
Received 23 Jul 19994 Great Bedford Street, Bath, BA1 2TZ
Received 23 Jul 19994 Great Bedford Street, Bath, BA1 2TZ
Received 23 Jul 199926-27 Milsom Street, Bath, BA1 1DG
Received 20 Jul 19999 Queens Parade, Bath, BA1 2NJ
Received 22 Jul 1999Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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