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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
58,957 approved · 7,905 refused · 5,452 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 Jan 2002 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 2 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land To West Of No 41, High Street, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 17 Feb 2023Greywalls , Claverton Down Road, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DZ
Received 17 Feb 20239 Forefield Place, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QF
Received 17 Feb 2023Lake View , Lansdown Road, Charlcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9DT
Received 17 Feb 202333 Belgrave Crescent, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JU
Received 17 Feb 2023West End House , High Street, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QD
Received 20 Feb 2023Gaia , Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AE
Received 20 Feb 202313 Pine Court, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SQ
Received 20 Feb 2023Milford Head , Mill Hill, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QJ
Received 20 Feb 2023Rainbows End , Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6ED
Received 20 Feb 20238 Silver Street, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8RE
Received 20 Feb 2023The Lodge Mews , Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6EP
Received 20 Feb 202361 Frome Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2PW
Received 20 Feb 2023The Garden House, High Street, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QE
Received 20 Feb 202314 Upper Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3JZ
Received 20 Feb 202319 Queen Square, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2HX
Received 20 Feb 202319 Queen Square, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2HX
Received 20 Feb 202323 The Brow, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1EA
Received 20 Feb 20234 North Parade, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LF
Received 20 Feb 2023123 Hansford Square, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5LL
Received 20 Feb 2023Almapri, Hensley Road, Moorlands, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2DR
Received 20 Feb 202316 Walcot Buildings, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AD
Received 20 Feb 20237 Upper Church Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2PT
Received 20 Feb 2023Midsomer Norton Town Council, Town Hall, The Island, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2HQ
Received 20 Feb 2023Records 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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