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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.
12,080 approved · 1,404 refused · 1,760 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7 Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6EW
Received 31 Oct 20195 Kensington Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AW
Received 31 Oct 2019White Hill Cottages, White Hill, Shoscombe, Bath,
Received 31 Oct 2019Additional Development Area, Holburne Park, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 31 Oct 201914 Charmouth Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3LJ
Received 31 Oct 201924 Lucklands Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AX
Received 31 Oct 2019Land Adjacent To Kingswell, Eckweek Lane, Peasedown St. John, Bath,
Received 1 Nov 20191 Brunel Square, Bath,
Received 1 Nov 2019Kelston Sparkes Contractors Ltd Bromley Pit Yard, Bromley Road, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4DE
Received 1 Nov 20195 Withies Park, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2NU
Received 1 Nov 2019Best-one Xpress, 33 Upper Bloomfield Road, Odd Down, Bath, BA2 2RY
Received 1 Nov 201914 Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AX
Received 1 Nov 2019Planning Applications Outside BANES, Planning, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 1 Nov 2019Garages Rear Of 1 Cork Terrace, St Michael's Road, Lower Weston, Bath,
Received 1 Nov 20192 High Street, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6SY
Received 1 Nov 2019The Old Post Office, Old School Hill, South Stoke, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7DU
Received 1 Nov 2019Winford Ford, Chew Road, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8HJ
Received 1 Nov 20193 Roseland Close, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AD
Received 1 Nov 201965 Englishcombe Lane, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EE
Received 1 Nov 2019Upper Floor , 16 Lower Borough Walls, City Centre, Bath, BA1 1QR
Received 1 Nov 2019Commercial Parking Site, Box Road, Bathford, Bath,
Received 1 Nov 2019Midsomer Norton Sports Centre , Gullock Tyning, Midsomer Norton, BA3 2SY
Received 1 Nov 20193 Scumbrum Lane, High Littleton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6JN
Received 2 Nov 201926 Egerton Road, Moorlands, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2DP
Received 2 Nov 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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