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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.
11,646 approved · 1,349 refused · 1,686 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jan 2012 to 1 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
10 Bath Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1NW
Received 8 Jul 2019Lansdown Close, College Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RR
Received 8 Jul 201921 The Mead, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0AG
Received 8 Jul 2019Highfield House, Winford Road, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8QE
Received 4 Jul 2019Kingswood School, Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RG
Received 5 Jul 2019Hotel Indigo, 4 - 8 South Parade, City Centre, Bath, BA2 4AB
Received 8 Jul 2019East Lodge, Chew Hill, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SB
Received 8 Jul 2019Portugal House, 47 High Street, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8PR
Received 8 Jul 2019Riverside, Temple Street, Keynsham,
Received 8 Jul 2019Sports Training Village, University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7BT
Received 8 Jul 201913 Evelyn Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3QF
Received 8 Jul 2019Hill House, North Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HY
Received 8 Jul 201924 Sion Hill, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UL
Received 9 Jul 2019The Coach House, Pilgrims Way, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8TZ
Received 9 Jul 2019Hope House, Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath,
Received 9 Jul 2019Hawker Joinery Ltd, 114 Northend, Batheaston, Bath, BA1 7HN
Received 9 Jul 2019Edmond Shipway & Partners Twerton Villa, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1EP
Received 9 Jul 2019The Coach House, Pilgrims Way, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8TZ
Received 9 Jul 2019478 Wellsway, Bath, BA2 2UB
Received 9 Jul 2019Cau , 1 Milsom Place, City Centre, Bath, BA1 1BZ
Received 9 Jul 2019Riverside, Temple Street, Keynsham,
Received 9 Jul 2019Kingswood School, Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RG
Received 9 Jul 2019Unregistered Property, 16A Livingstone Road, Oldfield Park, Bath,
Received 9 Jul 2019Southstoke Hall, Packhorse Lane, South Stoke, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7DL
Received 9 Jul 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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