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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71,446 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Lower Camden Place, Bath, BA1 5JJ
Received 26 Aug 1999Bath Clinic, Claverton Down Road, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 7BR
Received 31 Aug 19991 Cork Terrace, Bath, BA1 3BE
Received 1 Sept 199925 Milsom Street, Bath, BA1 1DG
Received 26 Aug 199925 Milsom Street, Bath, BA1 1DG
Received 26 Aug 1999Combe Down Rugby Club, North Road, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5DE
Received 3 Sept 19998 How Hill, Bath, BA2 1DL
Received 27 Aug 19993 Terrace Walk, Bath, BA1 1LN
Received 29 Aug 1999Lansdown Grove Hotel, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5EH
Received 26 Aug 1999Lansdown Grove Hotel, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5EH
Received 26 Aug 1999723 Wellsway, Bath, BA2 2TZ
Received 3 Sept 199926 South View Road, Bath, BA2 3RW
Received 6 Sept 19997 St Michaels Road, Whiteway, Bath, BA2 1PZ
Received 6 Sept 199910 Camden Crescent, Bath, BA1 5HY
Received 2 Sept 1999St Saviours Junior School, Brookleaze Buildings, Bath, BA1 6RB
Received 11 Aug 19995 Walcot Buildings, Bath, BA1 6AD
Received 1 Sept 1999Newbridge Infants School, Charmouth Road, Bath, BA1 3LL
Received 20 Aug 1999Old Station House, Ashley Avenue, Bath, BA1 3DS
Received 1 Sept 1999Currys Ltd, Unit B Weston Lock Retail Park, Lower Bristol Road, Bath, BA2 1ES
Received 2 Sept 1999Dillons Ltd, 3 The Hollow, Bath, BA2 1LX
Received 2 Sept 1999Dillons Ltd, 3 The Hollow, Bath, BA2 1LX
Received 2 Sept 1999Entry Hill Golf Club, Entry Hill, Bath, BA2 5NA
Received 1 Sept 1999Lloyds TSB Bank Plc, Capital And Counties Branch, 47 Milsom Street, Bath, BA1 1DN
Received 27 Aug 1999Ashley Lodge, Prior Park Road, Bath, BA2 4NW
Received 2 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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