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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71,445 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
30 Oldfield Road, Bath, BA2 3NF
Received 14 Oct 1999Nationwide Building Society, 21 Old Bond Street, Bath, BA1 1BP
Received 14 Oct 1999Regency Laundry Services, Lower Bristol Road, Bath, BA2 3BX
Received 18 Oct 199912 Cleevedale Road, Bath, BA2 5QS
Received 18 Oct 19995 St Anns Way, Bath, BA2 6BT
Received 19 Oct 1999131 Rush Hill, Bath, BA2 2QU
Received 18 Oct 199926/27, Grosvenor Place, Bath, BA1 6BA
Received 19 Oct 199910 Cedric Road, Bath, BA1 3PA
Received 19 Oct 19999 Chaucer Road, Bath, BA2 4QU
Received 19 Oct 1999Holburne Museum Of Art, Great Pulteney Street, Bath, BA2 4DB
Received 6 Oct 1999Waldegrave House, Waldegrave Road, Bath, BA1 5SL
Received 21 Oct 1999Brassmill Enterprise Centre, Brassmill Trading Estate, Newbridge, Bath, BA1 3JN
Received 21 Oct 199917-18 Milsom Street, Bath, BA1 1DE
Received 20 Oct 19996 Ainslies Belvedere , Bath, BA1 5HT
Received 19 Oct 199926/27, Grosvenor Place, Bath, BA1 6BA
Received 19 Oct 199940 Gay Street, Bath, BA1 2NT
Received 25 Oct 1999University Of Bath, University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7PB
Received 18 Oct 1999Boston Tea Party, 19 Kingsmead Square, Bath, BA1 2AE
Received 28 Oct 1999University Of Bath, University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7PB
Received 27 Oct 1999Bath Rugby Plc, Recreation Ground, Great Pulteney Street, Bath, BA2 6PW
Received 26 Oct 1999The Quarry House, 135 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JJ
Received 25 Oct 1999Garage Block, Henrietta Gardens, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LZ
Received 20 Oct 199971 Rush Hill, Bath, BA2 2QT
Received 26 Oct 1999Jaeger Ladieswear, 20 Milsom Street, Bath, BA1 1DE
Received 25 Oct 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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