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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
71,446 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7 Sydney Buildings, Bath, BA2 6BZ
Received 6 Sept 199917 Cleveland Walk, Bath, BA2 6JW
Received 7 Sept 1999Bath Rugby Plc, Recreation Ground, Great Pulteney Street, Bath, BA2 6PW
Received 8 Sept 1999Wansdyke Special School, Frome Road, Bath, BA2 2UN
Received 3 Sept 1999Newbridge Park And Ride, Newbridge Road, Bath, BA1 3JX
Received 10 Sept 199923 Beech Avenue, Bath, BA2 7BA
Received 3 Sept 19995A Marshfield Way, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6HA
Received 3 Sept 1999Kensington Court, Walcot, Bath, BA1 6PS
Received 6 Sept 1999The Dolphin Inn Public House, Locksbrook Road, Bath, BA1 3EN
Received 9 Sept 199933 Upper Oldfield Park, Bath, BA2 3JX
Received 8 Sept 199934 Southstoke Road, Bath, BA2 5SN
Received 1 Sept 1999Belvedere, North Road, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 6HY
Received 9 Sept 199916 Crescent Gardens, Bath, BA1 2NA
Received 10 Sept 19991 Hawthorn Grove, Bath, BA2 5QA
Received 10 Sept 199913 Grosvenor Place, Bath, BA1 6AX
Received 13 Sept 199913 Grosvenor Place, Bath, BA1 6AX
Received 13 Sept 1999Guildhall Market, High Street, City Centre, Bath, BA2 4AW
Received 13 Sept 1999University Of Bath, University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7PB
Received 10 Sept 199914 Lansdown Place East , Bath, BA1 5ET
Received 13 Sept 1999University Of Bath, University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7PB
Received 14 Sept 1999Bridge No 148, Tow Path Kennett And Avon Canal, Bathwick, Bath
Received 1 Sept 1999Sydney Gardens South Bridge, Tow Path Kennett And Avon Canal, Bathwick, Bath
Received 2 Sept 1999106 North Road, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5DJ
Received 14 Sept 1999Sydney Road Tunnel, Tow Path Kennet And Avon Canal, Bathwick, Bath,
Received 1 Sept 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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