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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71,446 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
33 Prospect Place, Camden Road, Bath, BA1 5JD
Received 12 Jan 1999Street Record, Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath
Received 13 Jan 1999O2, 40 Stall Street, Bath, BA1 1QH
Received 11 Jan 199943 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 1DN
Received 11 Jan 19998 Raby Place, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 4EH
Received 18 Jan 1999County Hotel, 18-19 Pulteney Road, Bath, BA2 4EZ
Received 8 Jan 1999County Hotel, 18-19 Pulteney Road, Bath, BA2 4EZ
Received 8 Jan 199957 St Johns Road, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 6PZ
Received 14 Jan 199936 Crescent Gardens, Kingsmead, Bath, BA1 2NB
Received 13 Jan 199940 Newbridge Road, Bath, BA1 3JZ
Received 13 Jan 1999Browns Restaurant And Bar, Orange Grove, Bath, BA1 1LP
Received 12 Jan 1999The Shrubbery, Upper Camden Place, Bath, BA1 5HX
Received 11 Jan 1999Street Record, Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath
Received 19 Jan 199920-21 Cheap Street, Bath, BA1 1NA
Received 12 Jan 199920-21 Cheap Street, Bath, BA1 1NA
Received 12 Jan 1999Avalon, 7 Henrietta Gardens, Bath, BA2 6LZ
Received 14 Jan 1999Little Chef, Lower Bristol Road, Bath, BA2 9ES
Received 20 Jan 1999St Marks Community Centre, St Marks Road, Bath, BA2 4PA
Received 18 Jan 1999Theatre Royal, Sawclose, Bath, BA1 1ET
Received 25 Jan 1999Flat 1 10 Bathwick Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LJ
Received 15 Jan 1999Flat 1 , 10 Bathwick Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NX
Received 15 Jan 199919 Powlett Road, Bath, BA2 6QH
Received 21 Jan 1999St Saviours Church, St Saviours Road, Bath, BA1 6RT
Received 21 Jan 199933 Upper Oldfield Park, Bath, BA2 3JX
Received 25 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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