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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71,446 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
88 Hillcrest Drive, Bath, BA2 1HE
Received 23 Mar 1999University Of Bath, University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7PB
Received 23 Mar 199999 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5JJ
Received 24 Mar 1999Thillah, Whitewells Road, Bath, BA1 6NZ
Received 23 Mar 1999Grove House, 13 Pulteney Road, Bath, BA2 4HA
Received 15 Mar 199924 Valley View Close, Bath, BA1 6TP
Received 25 Mar 199924 Lambridge Place, Bath, BA1 6RU
Received 23 Mar 1999Street Record, Orange Grove, City Centre, Bath
Received 5 Mar 19995 Pennard Green, Bath, BA2 1SE
Received 24 Mar 19997 Charlton Buildings, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, BA2 3EA
Received 12 Mar 19996 Charlton Buildings, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3EA
Received 12 Mar 19994 Poplar Road, Bath, BA2 2AJ
Received 24 Mar 1999The Squash House, Mount Road, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 5PW
Received 26 Mar 19993 Hermitage Road, Bath, BA1 5SN
Received 26 Mar 1999Nevets, Mount Grove, Bath, BA2 1JS
Received 26 Mar 1999Wispers, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 5TL
Received 26 Mar 1999Sulis Manor, Combe Hay Lane, Bath, BA2 8PB
Received 29 Mar 19995 Claremont Place, Camden Road, Bath, BA1 5JE
Received 30 Mar 1999De Montalt Place, 1 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5HT
Received 31 Mar 1999De Montalt Place, 1 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath,
Received 6 Apr 199948 Cleveland Walk, Bath, BA2 6JT
Received 31 Mar 199931 Grosvenor Place, Bath, BA1 6BA
Received 31 Mar 1999The Bath Press, Lower Bristol Road, Bath, BA2 3BL
Received 30 Mar 199910-12 Maple Grove, Oldfield Park, Bath, BA2 3AF
Received 31 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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