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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71,446 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
8 Palace Yard Mews, Bath, BA1 2NH
Received 30 Dec 199824-26 Union Street, Bath, BA1 1RS
Received 30 Dec 1998Artisans Yard, The Smallholdings, Claude Avenue, Twerton, Bath, BA2 1AF
Received 29 Dec 199838 Cranmore Place, Bath, BA2 2UW
Received 24 Dec 199830 Byfield, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5JD
Received 31 Dec 199813 Forester Court, Bath, BA2 6QZ
Received 31 Dec 1998Royal National Hospital For Rheumatic Diseases, Upper Borough Walls, Bath, BA1 1RL
Received 30 Dec 19987 Heathfield Close, Bath, BA1 4NW
Received 29 Dec 199826-27 Milsom Street, Bath, BA1 1DG
Received 30 Dec 1998Nationwide Building Society, 21 Old Bond Street, Bath, BA1 1BP
Received 30 Dec 1998Nationwide Building Society, 21 Old Bond Street, Bath, BA1 1BP
Received 30 Dec 1998Primrose Hill House, 2 Primrose Hill, Upper Weston, Bath, BA1 2US
Received 4 Jan 1999Standard Life Investments Limited, Unit 5, Maltings Industrial Estate, Newbridge, Bath, BA1 3JL
Received 31 Dec 1998125A Hansford Square, Bath, BA2 5LL
Received 7 Jan 1999Flats 1-4, Riverside House, 19 Osborne Road, Bath, BA1 3JS
Received 6 Jan 199959 Cotswold Road, Bath, BA2 2DL
Received 11 Jan 19991 Armes Court, Lyncombe, Bath, BA2 4JY
Received 8 Jan 1999Street Record, Beauford Square, City Centre, Bath
Received 6 Jan 1999Horstman Defence Systems Ltd, Locksbrook Road, Bath, BA1 3EX
Received 8 Jan 19998 Raby Place, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 4EH
Received 8 Jan 1999Spar, 17-18 Broad Street, Bath, BA1 5LN
Received 11 Jan 1999Spar, 17-18 Broad Street, Bath, BA1 5LN
Received 11 Jan 199940 Lyncombe Hill, Bath, BA2 4PH
Received 13 Jan 199915 Daniel Street, Bath, BA2 6NB
Received 12 Jan 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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