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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71,446 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
55 New King Street, Bath, BA1 2BN
Received 8 Mar 199918 Royal Crescent, Bath, BA1 2LT
Received 8 Mar 1999Badgerline, Weston Island, Lower Bristol Road, Bath, BA2 3BJ
Received 12 Mar 19999 Lansdown Crescent, Bath, BA1 5EX
Received 5 Mar 19994 Alfred Street, Bath, BA1 2QU
Received 10 Mar 1999A1 Tyres, 88 Wood Street, Lower Bristol Road, Bath, BA2 3BJ
Received 11 Mar 19994 Princes Buildings, Bath, BA1 2ED
Received 9 Mar 1999211 Bailbrook Lane, Bath, BA1 7AB
Received 8 Mar 1999Rondo Theatre, St Saviours Road, Bath, BA1 6RT
Received 11 Mar 199946 Cranwells Park, Weston, Bath, BA1 2YE
Received 11 Mar 1999Spring Vale, 34 Newbridge Hill, Bath, BA1 3PU
Received 11 Mar 1999Pumping Station, Locksbrook Road, Newbridge, Bath,
Received 9 Mar 1999Arisaig, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5TD
Received 12 Mar 1999Mcdonalds Restaurants Ltd Weston Lock Retail, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1EP
Received 8 Mar 1999Kingsmead House, James Street West, Bath, BA1 2BT
Received 12 Mar 1999Land To Rear Of Hinton Garage, Albion Place, Kingsmead, Bath,
Received 3 Mar 1999Land To Rear Of Hinton Garage, Albion Place, Kingsmead, Bath,
Received 4 Mar 19991 Harington Place, Bath, BA1 1HF
Received 10 Mar 19991 Harington Place, Bath, BA1 1HF
Received 10 Mar 1999Prospect House, 6 Crown Hill, Bath, BA1 4DE
Received 12 Mar 1999Prospect House, 6 Crown Hill, Bath, BA1 4DE
Received 12 Mar 19996 Green Street, Bath, BA1 2JY
Received 12 Mar 19996 Green Street, Bath, BA1 2JY
Received 12 Mar 19995-6 Grove Street, Bath, BA2 6PJ
Received 15 Mar 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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