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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
59,618 approved · 8,057 refused · 5,507 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
17 Walcot Buildings, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AD
Received 13 Mar 202328 Purlewent Drive, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AZ
Received 13 Mar 202314 Sydney Buildings, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BZ
Received 13 Mar 2023Easton , Sham Castle Lane, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JL
Received 13 Mar 2023Highfields, Silver Street, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2UF
Received 13 Mar 202368 Bloomfield Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AA
Received 2 Jan 202329 St James's Square, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 2TT
Received 3 Jan 202319 Sion Hill, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UJ
Received 2 Jan 20237 Innox Grove, Englishcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9DX
Received 3 Jan 2023St Luke's Church Centre, Hatfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2BD
Received 2 Jan 20235C Upper Bloomfield Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2RU
Received 3 Jan 2023St Luke's Church Centre, Hatfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2BD
Received 2 Jan 20232 The Old House , The Hill, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7WG
Received 3 Jan 2023Shop Premises, 6 New Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BE
Received 3 Jan 2023The Moorings , Midford Road, Midford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7DD
Received 3 Jan 202321 West Lea Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3RL
Received 3 Jan 2023Parcel 5600, Bradford Road, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 3 Jan 2023Shop Premises, 6 New Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BE
Received 3 Jan 20231 Oriel Gardens, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AS
Received 3 Jan 2023Dayr-house, Prospect Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AY
Received 3 Jan 2023Parcel 7512, Fosseway, Englishcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 3 Jan 20232 Church Street, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4BU
Received 4 Jan 2023The Cottage , 81 Hardings Lane, Marksbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9HP
Received 4 Jan 2023Kingswood School, Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RG
Received 4 Jan 2023Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart 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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