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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71,446 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
G L Hearn, The Old Malthouse, 17-20 Sydney Buildings, Bath, BA2 6BZ
Received 29 Mar 199912 Macaulay Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, BA2 6AT
Received 26 Mar 1999Englishcombe Lane Service Station, 243 Englishcombe Lane, Bath, BA2 2ER
Received 30 Mar 1999The Moorings, Sydney Wharf, Bath, BA2 4EF
Received 30 Mar 1999Mcdonalds Restaurants Ltd Weston Lock Retail, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1EP
Received 29 Mar 1999Bath Spa University College 5 - 20 Somerset Place, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 5HA
Received 31 Mar 1999Mcdonalds Restaurants Ltd Weston Lock Retail, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1EP
Received 29 Mar 1999210 Old Frome Road, Bath, BA2 5RH
Received 1 Apr 1999Mcdonalds Restaurants Ltd Weston Lock Retail, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1EP
Received 29 Mar 1999Mcdonalds Restaurants Ltd Weston Lock Retail, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1EP
Received 29 Mar 1999Quarry Farm House, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 6EE
Received 6 Apr 199911 Cleeve Green, Bath, BA2 1SD
Received 6 Apr 199952 Combe Park, Bath, BA1 3NH
Received 6 Apr 199912 Old Orchard Street, Bath, BA1 1JU
Received 1 Apr 199912 Old Orchard Street, Bath, BA1 1JU
Received 1 Apr 199962 Cedric Road, Bath, BA1 3PB
Received 7 Apr 1999RSPCA Cats And Dogs Home, The Avenue , Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AZ
Received 31 Mar 1999Widcombe CEVA Junior School, Pulteney Road, Bath, BA2 4JG
Received 12 Mar 199910 Northumberland Place, Bath, BA1 5AR
Received 7 Apr 1999Bakers Dolphin Travel, 10 Northumberland Place, Bath, BA1 5AR
Received 7 Apr 1999Hartwells Garage, Newbridge Road, Bath, BA1 2PP
Received 7 Apr 19991 Avondale Court, Lower Weston, Bath, BA1 3ET
Received 9 Apr 1999Bath Clinic, Claverton Down Road, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 7BR
Received 7 Apr 1999Etam Plc, 11 Union Street, Bath, BA1 1RP
Received 8 Apr 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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