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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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Bath and North East Somerset Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
11,234 approved · 1,314 refused · 1,630 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jan 2012 to 1 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
Clarkson House, 5 Great Stanhope Street, Kingsmead, Bath,
Received 25 Apr 201911 Balmoral Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1AL
Received 25 Apr 201939 Cranmore Place, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2UP
Received 25 Apr 2019Manor Farm, Millards Hill, Welton, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2BW
Received 24 Apr 2019Unregistered Dwelling 3, Avon Farm, Avon Lane, Saltford,
Received 25 Apr 201983 Purlewent Drive, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4BD
Received 26 Apr 2019Lea House, 4 Sutton Park, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5UQ
Received 26 Apr 20194 Cedar Drive, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2TP
Received 26 Apr 201923 Cappards Road, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5PS
Received 29 Apr 2019Atm, Bath Spa Railway Station, Dorchester Street, Bath,
Received 30 Apr 2019Rustlings, Ostlings Lane, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RW
Received 1 May 20194 Barrow Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2TD
Received 1 May 201947 Lymore Avenue, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1BB
Received 2 May 201948 Lansdown Crescent, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0JX
Received 2 May 2019Prospect House, Seven Acre Lane, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7HE
Received 3 May 2019Costa Coffee , 44 Stall Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1QH
Received 3 May 2019The Laurels, South Road, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0ER
Received 3 May 2019Works Department And Medical Records Office, Royal United Hospital, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset
Received 3 May 201913 Day Crescent, Twerton, Bath, BA2 1RY
Received 7 May 2019Riverside, 10 London Road West, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7HY
Received 12 Mar 2019Basement Flat 4, 11 Queen's Parade, Bath, BA1 2NJ
Received 14 Mar 2019Unoccupied Bath Road Garage, Bath Road, Farmborough, Bath, BA2 0BX
Received 27 Mar 2019Unoccupied Bath Road Garage, Bath Road, Farmborough, Bath, BA2 0BX
Received 27 Mar 2019The Evergreens, Streamleaze, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SE
Received 1 Apr 2019Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart 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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