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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71,446 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Green Street, Bath, BA1 2JY
Received 12 Mar 19995-6 Grove Street, Bath, BA2 6PJ
Received 15 Mar 1999Starbucks Coffee Company, 13 Old Bond Street, Bath, BA1 1BP
Received 15 Mar 19993 Devonshire Villas, Bath, BA2 4SX
Received 15 Mar 199916 Catharine Place, Bath, BA1 2PS
Received 8 Feb 19993 Innox Road, Bath, BA2 1EG
Received 17 Mar 1999173 Bradford Road, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5BT
Received 16 Mar 199937 St Kildas Road, Bath, BA2 3QL
Received 17 Mar 1999Cobweb Corner, 41 Flatwoods Road, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AQ
Received 17 Mar 1999183 Southdown Road, Bath, BA2 1HR
Received 18 Mar 1999Burdall's Yard, 7A Anglo Terrace, Bath, BA1 5NH
Received 19 Mar 1999University Of Bath, University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7PB
Received 22 Mar 199950 Priory Close, Bath, BA2 5AN
Received 18 Mar 199937A Lyncombe Hill, Bath, BA2 4PQ
Received 22 Mar 1999Riverside Cafe, 17 Argyle Street, Bath, BA2 4BQ
Received 22 Mar 1999Land Adj Blue Cedar Bungalow, Camden Road, Bath, BA1 6JB
Received 22 Mar 199915 Upper Oldfield Park, Bath, BA2 3JX
Received 23 Mar 1999The Jubilee Public House, 91 Whiteway Road, Bath, BA2 2RF
Received 22 Mar 19992 Cork Place, Bath, BA1 3BB
Received 23 Mar 199934 Oolite Road, Bath, BA2 2UU
Received 22 Mar 199914 Chelsea Road, Bath, BA1 3DU
Received 22 Mar 199975 Lower Oldfield Park, Bath, BA2 3HR
Received 23 Mar 1999T R Hayes Limited, 15-18 London Street, Bath, BA1 5BX
Received 26 Feb 19997 Bennett Street, Bath, BA1 2QJ
Received 23 Mar 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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