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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
59,713 approved · 8,086 refused · 5,518 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Sept 2001 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 3 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Kildare , Tynings, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5RZ
Received 4 Jan 2023Tournesol , Charlcombe Lane, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TP
Received 4 Jan 202315 Livingstone Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 4 Jan 20238 Caroline Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4JH
Received 4 Jan 202314 Old Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 4 Jan 2023Shop Premises, 6 New Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BE
Received 4 Jan 202340 Cleveland Walk, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JT
Received 5 Jan 2023Street Record, Bath Spa University Campus, Newton St Loe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 21 Dec 202259 The Mead, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1FE
Received 5 Jan 2023Vale House, Loves Hill, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0EU
Received 5 Jan 2023High Orchard , 7 High Street, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8PR
Received 5 Jan 202324 Dartmouth Walk, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2NZ
Received 5 Jan 202311 Williamstowe, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5EJ
Received 5 Jan 2023222 Newbridge Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3LG
Received 5 Jan 2023The Longstall , Bath Road, Kelston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9AG
Received 5 Jan 2023Cloud Hill Farm , Eastcourt Road, Temple Cloud, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5BX
Received 5 Jan 2023Cloud Hill Farm , Eastcourt Road, Temple Cloud, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5BX
Received 5 Jan 2023113 Redland Park, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1SJ
Received 5 Jan 202313 Cavendish Place, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UB
Received 5 Jan 202316 Arundel Road, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6EF
Received 5 Jan 202319 Barton Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1HG
Received 5 Jan 2023Portugal House , 47 High Street, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8PR
Received 6 Jan 2023Nempnett Cottage , Nempnett Street, Nempnett Thrubwell, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8YW
Received 6 Jan 20236 Berkeley Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JH
Received 6 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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