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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.
12,548 approved · 1,463 refused · 1,836 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jan 2012 to 6 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Ferndale Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6TD
Received 7 Oct 2019Land To West Of Tamarisk, Ostlings Lane, Bathford, Bath,
Received 7 Oct 2019School House Monkton Combe School, Church Lane, Monkton Combe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7HG
Received 7 Oct 201938 Sydney Buildings, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DB
Received 7 Oct 2019Street Record, The Homestead, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset
Received 7 Oct 2019Barclays Bank , 2 North Road, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5DQ
Received 7 Oct 20192 Richardson Place, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5ES
Received 8 Oct 201924 Church Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4BT
Received 8 Oct 2019Colworth, The Avenue, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5EQ
Received 8 Oct 201917 Roundhill Grove, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1JT
Received 8 Oct 2019The Cottage, Langridge Lane, Langridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8AJ
Received 8 Oct 2019The Cottage, 21 Steam Mills, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2JZ
Received 8 Oct 201927A Belvedere, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HR
Received 8 Oct 2019H S B C, 41 Southgate Street, Bath, BA1 1TN
Received 8 Oct 201952 Bath Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1SP
Received 8 Oct 201942 Napier Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4LW
Received 8 Oct 2019Highbanks, The Street, Stowey, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5TH
Received 8 Oct 20196 Cork Place, Upper Bristol Road, Lower Weston, Bath, BA1 3BB
Received 8 Oct 2019Park Farm, Church Lane, Kelston, Bath, BA1 9AG
Received 13 Dec 201916 Forester Court, Forester Avenue, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QZ
Received 13 Dec 2019Cherrywood, Perrymead, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AY
Received 13 Dec 20194 Raby Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EH
Received 13 Dec 2019Prospect Villa, Chew Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8UE
Received 14 Dec 2019The Gables, Hallatrow Hill, Hallatrow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6EE
Received 16 Dec 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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