Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
59,512 approved · 8,020 refused · 5,498 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Combe Lea Residential Care Home & Day Centre, Greenacres, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2RD
Received 7 Mar 202324 Elm Place , Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AB
Received 8 Mar 202324 Elm Place , Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AB
Received 8 Mar 2023Basement Flat, 16 Norfolk Crescent, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BE
Received 8 Mar 2023Basement Flat, 16 Norfolk Crescent, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BE
Received 8 Mar 2023Main House, Bath Spa University Campus, Newton St Loe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9BW
Received 8 Mar 20231 Queenwood Avenue, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6EU
Received 8 Mar 2023Vane Cottage , 22 Cleveland Walk, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JU
Received 8 Mar 2023Hawthorne House , Silver Street, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8RE
Received 8 Mar 202311 St James's Square, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 2TR
Received 8 Mar 2023Land To Rear Of 99 & 101 Fairfield Park Road, Solsbury Way, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 8 Mar 202318 Orchard Avenue, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2QZ
Received 8 Mar 202317 Wellsway, Keynsham, BS31 1HS
Received 8 Mar 20237 Widcombe Crescent, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AH
Received 8 Mar 20234 St Mary's Buildings, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AT
Received 8 Mar 2023Beckford Tower , Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9BH
Received 8 Mar 2023Elmhurst , Woollard Lane, Whitchurch, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0QR
Received 8 Mar 202331 Belgrave Crescent, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JU
Received 8 Mar 202315 Cleveland Walk, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JP
Received 8 Mar 2023Parcel 714, Fersfield, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 8 Mar 20239 Camden Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HY
Received 8 Mar 2023204 The Hollow, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1NG
Received 7 Mar 20238 Dover Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6DX
Received 8 Mar 20235 Woodlands Park, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7BQ
Received 8 Mar 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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