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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71,446 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bath Spa University College 5 - 20 Somerset Place, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 5HA
Received 29 Sept 19993 New Bond Street Buildings, New Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 1BL
Received 22 Jul 19999 Grosvenor Park, Bath, BA1 6BL
Received 29 Sept 199919 Broad Street, Bath, BA1 5LN
Received 4 Oct 199947 Cranwells Park, Weston, Bath, BA1 2YE
Received 30 Sept 19997 Northfields Close, Bath, BA1 5TE
Received 29 Sept 19993 Midford Road, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5RW
Received 30 Sept 199927 Richmond Place, Bath, BA1 5PZ
Received 30 Sept 19999 Bailbrook Lane, Bath, BA1 7AH
Received 28 Sept 199932 Richmond Place, Bath, BA1 5QA
Received 5 Oct 1999Cooper Foodstore, 6 Chelsea Road, Bath, BA1 3DU
Received 28 Sept 199921 Stall Street, Bath, BA1 1QF
Received 6 Oct 199924 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BU
Received 6 Oct 199910 Pulteney Gardens, Bath, BA2 4HG
Received 6 Oct 1999Vellore Cottage, Sham Castle Lane, Bath, BA2 6JN
Received 1 Oct 199924 St Marks Road, Bath, BA2 4PA
Received 6 Oct 199914A St Christophers Close, Bath, BA2 6RG
Received 4 Oct 199940 Gladstone Road, Bath, BA2 5HL
Received 5 Oct 19998 Trossachs Drive, Bath, BA2 6RP
Received 7 Oct 1999Garden Flat, Vale Lodge, Weston Park West , Bath, BA1 4AR
Received 6 Oct 1999Ayrlington Hotel, 24-25 Pulteney Road, Bath, BA2 4EZ
Received 1 Oct 1999Ayrlington Hotel, 24-25 Pulteney Road, Bath, BA2 4EZ
Received 1 Oct 1999Ayrlington Hotel, 24-25 Pulteney Road, Bath, BA2 4EZ
Received 1 Oct 1999Ayrlington Hotel, 24-25 Pulteney Road, Bath, BA2 4EZ
Received 1 Oct 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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