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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71,445 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
9 Entry Hill Gardens, Bath, BA2 5NR
Received 15 Nov 1999Nationwide Building Society, 21 Old Bond Street, Bath, BA1 1BP
Received 14 Oct 1999Storage Yard At Rear Of 55, Forester Avenue, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset
Received 12 Nov 19997 Bellotts Road, Bath, BA2 3RT
Received 16 Nov 1999The Garden House, 17 Oldfield Lane, Bath, BA2 3NP
Received 19 Nov 1999Newbridge Park And Ride, Newbridge Road, Bath, BA1 3JX
Received 24 Nov 19997 Chantry Mead Road, Bath, BA2 2DA
Received 22 Nov 199916 Nightingale Way, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, BA3 4NL
Received 26 Nov 1999New Farm, Denny Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, BS40 8SZ
Received 29 Nov 1999Homewood Lodge, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, BA2 7TB
Received 30 Nov 199960 Great Pulteney Street, Bath, BA2 4DN
Received 19 Nov 199928 Eckweek Road, Peasedown St John, Bath, BA2 8EJ
Received 30 Nov 1999Bicknell Farm, Access Road From Hilltop Lane To Bicknell Farm, Nempnett Thrubwell, BS40 7UZ
Received 30 Nov 199927 Caledonian Road, Bath, BA2 3RB
Received 19 Nov 199910 St Marys Close, Bath, BA2 6BR
Received 24 Nov 1999Griffin Inn, Monmouth Street, Bath
Received 23 Nov 1999Cavendish Villa, Cavendish Road, Bath, BA1 2UD
Received 26 Nov 199917 Beaufort West , Bath, BA1 6QB
Received 24 Nov 199950 Upper Lansdown Mews, Bath, BA1 5HG
Received 26 Nov 19999A Russell Street, Bath, BA1 2QF
Received 23 Nov 19997-8 Stall Street, Bath, BA1 1QE
Received 29 Nov 1999Wallset House, 27 Sion Road, Bath, BA1 5SH
Received 29 Nov 199920 Walcot Buildings, Bath, BA1 6AD
Received 24 Nov 19993 Lime Terrace, Radstock, BA3 3TF
Received 2 Dec 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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