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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
71,445 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
Royal York Hotel, 1 York Buildings, George Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 2EB
Received 9 Apr 1999Royal York Hotel, 1 York Buildings, George Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 2EB
Received 9 Apr 199913 Southstoke Road, Bath, BA2 5SJ
Received 13 Apr 1999Grosvenor Villa, Grosvenor Bridge Road, Bath, BA1 6BB
Received 13 Apr 1999G L Hearn, The Old Malthouse, 17-20 Sydney Buildings, Bath, BA2 6BZ
Received 15 Apr 199912A Princes Street, Bath, BA1 1HL
Received 16 Apr 19999 Forester Lane, Bath, BA2 6QX
Received 12 Apr 199982 High Street, Weston, Bath, BA1 4DB
Received 16 Apr 199982 High Street, Weston, Bath, BA1 4DB
Received 16 Apr 19993 Claremont Terrace, Bath, BA1 6EH
Received 19 Apr 1999243 Bailbrook Lane, Bath, BA1 7AA
Received 16 Apr 1999Walcot Yard, Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BG
Received 9 Apr 1999St Marys Church Hall, Guinea Lane, City Centre, Bath, BA1 5NB
Received 19 Apr 1999Walcot Yard, Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BG
Received 9 Apr 19992 Lansdown Park, Bath, BA1 5TG
Received 16 Apr 199914-15 Westgate Street, Bath, BA1 1EQ
Received 14 Apr 199914-15 Westgate Street, Bath, BA1 1EQ
Received 14 Apr 1999Homebase Store & Garden Centre, Pines Way, Bath, BA2 3ET
Received 20 Apr 1999Badgerline, Weston Island, Lower Bristol Road, Bath, BA2 3BJ
Received 20 Apr 19994 Cavendish Crescent, Bath, BA1 2UG
Received 21 Apr 199922 Vernslade , Bath, BA1 4DN
Received 20 Apr 1999Derelict Building, Landseer Road, Twerton, Bath, BA2 1DX
Received 19 Apr 1999Royal High School, Lansdown Road, Bath
Received 20 Apr 19996 William Stowe , Bath, BA2 5EJ
Received 21 Apr 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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