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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71,445 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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16A Park Lane, Lower Weston, Bath, BA1 2XH
Received 13 Dec 19992 Russell Street, Bath, BA1 2QF
Received 13 Dec 1999170 London Road West, Bath, BA1 7QU
Received 13 Dec 1999Westfield House, 172 Bloomfield Road, Bath, BA2 2AT
Received 9 Dec 1999George's Hotel, 2-3 South Parade, Bath, BA2 4AA
Received 8 Dec 19997 Lambridge Place, Bath
Received 15 Dec 199944 Richmond Place, Bath, BA1 5QA
Received 14 Dec 1999St James Surgery, 8 - 9 Northampton Buildings, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 2SR
Received 13 Dec 1999The Cottage, Northampton Buildings, Bath, BA1 2SR
Received 13 Dec 1999The Cottage, Northampton Buildings, Bath, BA1 2SR
Received 13 Dec 199917 The Grove, Hallatrow, Bath, BS39 6ES
Received 14 Dec 1999Audley Lodge, 19 Audley Park Road, Bath, BA1 2XJ
Received 8 Dec 1999Hayes Farm, White Ox Mead Lane, Peasedown St John, Bath, BA2 8PN
Received 10 Dec 19999-11 Park Road, Keynsham, BS31 1BX
Received 14 Dec 1999House Of Bath, 1 St Andrew's Terrace, City Centre, Bath, BA1 2QR
Received 13 Dec 199916 Parkfield Gardens, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, BS39 5XF
Received 15 Dec 19991 Riverside Court, St John's Road, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 6PD
Received 15 Nov 1999233 Bloomfield Road, Bath, BA2 2AY
Received 13 Dec 1999Land Adjacent To Lavender Cottage, Sutton Hill Road, Bishop Sutton, Bristol,
Received 17 Dec 199929 Woodborough Road, Radstock, BA3 3JE
Received 17 Dec 19992 Clifton Villas, The Avenue , Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5EQ
Received 14 Dec 1999Beech Cottage, Station Road, Freshford, Bath, BA2 7WQ
Received 17 Dec 19993 Combeside , Lyncombe Vale Road, Bath, BA2 4LU
Received 10 Dec 1999The Cornish House, Greyfield Road, High Littleton, Bristol, BS39 6YF
Received 17 Dec 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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