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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71,445 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
House Of Bath, 1 St Andrew's Terrace, City Centre, Bath, BA1 2QR
Received 22 Apr 199919 Newbridge Road, Bath, BA1 3HE
Received 26 Apr 199916 Lyncombe Hill, Bath, BA2 4PQ
Received 23 Apr 1999176 Bradford Road, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5DA
Received 26 Apr 19996 Abbey View, Bath, BA2 6DG
Received 22 Apr 1999Cavendish Villa, Cavendish Road, Bath, BA1 2UD
Received 21 Apr 1999Spring Vale, 34 Newbridge Hill, Bath, BA1 3PU
Received 27 Apr 1999Cavendish Villa, Cavendish Road, Bath, BA1 2UD
Received 21 Apr 1999Hadfield Place, The Firs , Bath, BA2 5ED
Received 20 Apr 199918-24 Wells Road, Bath, BA2 3AP
Received 7 Oct 199925 Royal Crescent, Bath, BA1 2LT
Received 7 Oct 1999Spring Vale, 34 Newbridge Hill, Bath, BA1 3PU
Received 11 Oct 199913 George Street, Bath, BA1 2EN
Received 8 Oct 1999Chesterfield Hotel 10A/11, Great Pulteney Street, Bath, BA2 4BR
Received 11 Oct 1999Chesterfield Hotel 10A/11, Great Pulteney Street, Bath, BA2 4BR
Received 11 Oct 1999Horsecombe Vale Farm, Beechwood Road, Bath, BA2 5JT
Received 13 Oct 1999Clonterry, Perrymead , Bath, BA2 5AY
Received 11 Oct 199944-48 Southgate , Bath, BA1 1TG
Received 15 Oct 199944-45 Milsom Street, Bath, BA1 1DN
Received 12 Oct 199944-45 Milsom Street, Bath, BA1 1DN
Received 12 Oct 19999 Bloomfield Road, Bath, BA2 2AD
Received 13 Oct 19999 Norfolk Crescent, Bath, BA1 2BE
Received 11 Oct 19999 Norfolk Crescent, Bath, BA1 2BE
Received 11 Oct 1999Westfield House, 172 Bloomfield Road, Bath, BA2 2AT
Received 15 Oct 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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