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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71,446 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 Stirtingale Road, Bath, BA2 2NF
Received 8 Feb 1999Bath Spa Railway Station, Dorchester Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 1SU
Received 8 Feb 199911 Clarence Street, Bath, BA1 5NS
Received 5 Feb 1999Boston Tea Party, 19 Kingsmead Square, Bath, BA1 2AE
Received 10 Feb 199920 West Lea Road, Bath, BA1 3RL
Received 11 Feb 199916 Catharine Place, Bath, BA1 2PS
Received 8 Feb 1999Thring Townsend, Midland Bridge Road, Kingsmead, Bath, BA1 2HQ
Received 9 Feb 1999Hartwells Garage, Newbridge Road, Bath, BA1 2PP
Received 12 Feb 1999The Empire, Orange Grove, Bath, BA1 1LP
Received 15 Feb 199968 Lower Bristol Road, Bath, BA2 3BE
Received 10 Feb 1999Superdrug, 42 Southgate , Bath, BA1 1TG
Received 16 Feb 199960 Cedric Road, Bath, BA1 3PB
Received 12 Feb 19995A Moorfields Road, Moorlands, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2HW
Received 15 Feb 1999Westwood, Fonthill Road, Bath, BA1 5RG
Received 16 Feb 19994 Primrose Hill, Bath, BA1 2US
Received 16 Feb 199928 Cleveland Walk, Bath, BA2 6JU
Received 16 Feb 199928 Cleveland Walk, Bath, BA2 6JU
Received 16 Feb 1999Lower Westwood, Fonthill Road, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 5RQ
Received 17 Feb 1999Victoria Lodge, Weston Road, Bath, BA1 2XY
Received 17 Feb 19998 Homelea Park East , Bath, BA1 3HP
Received 17 Feb 1999Victoria Lodge, Weston Road, Bath, BA1 2XY
Received 17 Feb 199928 Oak Street, Bath, BA2 3BR
Received 17 Feb 199921 Bloomfield Park, Bath, BA2 2BY
Received 19 Feb 19996 St Stephens Place, Bath, BA1 5PJ
Received 15 Feb 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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