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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71,446 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Ivy Cottage, Henrietta Place, Bath, BA2 6PP
Received 20 Jan 1999Ivy Cottage, Henrietta Place, Bath, BA2 6PP
Received 20 Jan 1999St Martin's Hospital, Midford Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5RP
Received 22 Jan 19993 Great Bedford Street, Bath, BA1 2TZ
Received 21 Jan 1999Isabella House, The Avenue , Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5EH
Received 25 Jan 1999Isabella House, The Avenue , Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5EH
Received 25 Jan 1999Royal Victoria Park Pavilion, Royal Avenue, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2NR
Received 25 Jan 1999Ivy Cottage, Henrietta Place, Bath, BA2 6PP
Received 20 Jan 1999Ivy Cottage, Henrietta Place, Bath, BA2 6PP
Received 20 Jan 1999Walcot Yard, Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BG
Received 25 Jan 19995 Rivers Street, Bath, BA1 2PZ
Received 25 Jan 1999Walcot Yard, Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BG
Received 25 Jan 1999Site Between 13 And Coal Yard, Locksbrook Road, Newbridge, Bath,
Received 25 Jan 1999Walcot Yard, Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BG
Received 18 Jan 1999Walcot Yard, Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BG
Received 18 Jan 199933 Penn Lea Road, Bath, BA1 3RG
Received 27 Jan 199925 - 26 High Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5AJ
Received 26 Jan 1999Springfield Cottage, 29 Entry Hill Park, Bath, BA2 5ND
Received 28 Jan 1999Pulteney Weir, River Avon, Bath
Received 27 Jan 199957 Richmond Place, Bath, BA1 5QA
Received 22 Jan 1999Southfield, 149 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5JN
Received 25 Jan 199924 Church Road, Weston, Bath, BA1 4BT
Received 26 Jan 19991 Grove Street, Bath, BA2 6PJ
Received 29 Jan 1999Walcot Yard, Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BG
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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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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