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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71,445 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
116 Frome Road, Bath, BA2 2PP
Received 4 Nov 19994 Abbey Gate Street, Bath, BA1 1NP
Received 8 Nov 1999Geological Society, Unit, 7 Brassmill Enterprise Centre, Brassmill Lane, Bath, BA1 3JN
Received 11 Nov 1999The Apple Loft, Horsecombe Vale, Bath, BA2 5QR
Received 4 Nov 1999The Lilacs, 7 How Hill, Bath, BA2 1DL
Received 8 Nov 1999Castanea House, Sham Castle Lane, Bath, BA2 6JN
Received 10 Nov 1999Prior Park College, Ralph Allen Drive, Bath, BA2 5AH
Received 10 Nov 199911 Lambridge , Bath, BA1 6BJ
Received 8 Nov 1999Cleveland House, Cleveland Place East, Walcot, Bath, BA1 5DJ
Received 11 Nov 1999The Jubilee Public House, 91 Whiteway Road, Bath, BA2 2RF
Received 8 Nov 19996 Darlington Place, Bath, BA2 6BX
Received 11 Nov 1999Cleveland House, Cleveland Place East, Walcot, Bath, BA1 5DJ
Received 11 Nov 19992 Southbourne Gardens, Bath, BA1 6LZ
Received 4 Nov 199932 Oldfield Road, Bath, BA2 3ND
Received 8 Nov 199921 Sladebrook Avenue, Bath, BA2 2LB
Received 1 Nov 1999151 Newbridge Road, Newbridge, Bath, BA1 3HG
Received 8 Nov 1999Waldegrave House, Waldegrave Road, Bath, BA1 5SL
Received 11 Nov 1999Bath Equestrian Centre, Middle Hill, Access Road To Upper Weston Farm, Upper Weston, Bath, BA1 4HL
Received 19 Nov 199915A Catharine Place, Bath, BA1 2PR
Received 11 Nov 1999Walcot Yard, Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BG
Received 12 Nov 1999Walcot Yard, Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BG
Received 12 Nov 19993 Grosvenor Place, Bath, BA1 6AX
Received 19 Nov 19999 Cotswold View, Bath, BA2 1HA
Received 17 Nov 19992-3 Queen Street, Bath, BA1 1HE
Received 20 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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