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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
60,046 approved · 8,166 refused · 5,555 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Street Record, Southgate Place, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 19 Jan 2023Street Record, Southgate Place, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 19 Jan 2023Street Record, Southgate Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 19 Jan 2023Street Record, Southgate Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 19 Jan 20232 Alice Park , Gloucester Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7BL
Received 19 Jan 20233 St Ann's Way, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BT
Received 19 Jan 202324A Chilcompton Road, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2PH
Received 20 Jan 20239 Springhill Close, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7XD
Received 20 Jan 202340 St James's Square, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 2TU
Received 20 Jan 20237 Wellington Buildings, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4EP
Received 20 Jan 2023Flat 5, 10 Alfred Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QX
Received 20 Jan 2023Site Of Former Ministry Of Defence Offices, Warminster Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 20 Jan 2023Buildings At End Of Walnut Drive, Walnut Drive, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 20 Jan 202320 Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AX
Received 20 Jan 202314 Trafalgar Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4EW
Received 20 Jan 2023Bath City Farm , Kelston View, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1NW
Received 20 Jan 202375 Cranwells Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2YE
Received 20 Jan 20239 Severus Street, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Jan 202371 Bailbrook Lane, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AL
Received 23 Jan 20236 Linden Gardens, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2YB
Received 23 Jan 202329 Hansford Square, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5LH
Received 23 Jan 202384 Northend, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7ES
Received 23 Jan 2023Binhams , Tuckers Lane, Ubley, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6PB
Received 23 Jan 2023264 High Street, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RA
Received 23 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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