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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
60,927 approved · 8,360 refused · 5,643 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 Jan 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
46A Radstock Road, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2AW
Received 15 May 202346 Waterloo Road, Radstock, BA3 3ER
Received 15 May 2023The Crown, 500 Bath Road, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3HJ
Received 15 May 2023The Crown, 500 Bath Road, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3HJ
Received 15 May 20238 Rennie Close, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4GZ
Received 15 May 20231 Alfred Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QU
Received 15 May 20231 Alfred Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QU
Received 15 May 2023Bath Western Riverside Development Site Phase 2, Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 15 May 202395 Newton Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1RP
Received 15 May 202322 Royal Crescent, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LT
Received 15 May 2023Manor House, Watery Lane, Burnett, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2TF
Received 15 May 2023Flat 1, 5 Brunswick Place, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2RQ
Received 15 May 2023Bath Churches Housing Association, 55 New King Street, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BN
Received 15 May 2023Flat 1, Grosvenor House, Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AU
Received 15 May 20231 Raby Villas , Sydney Wharf, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EE
Received 15 May 20233 Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BJ
Received 15 May 2023Parcel 2000, Silver Street, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 15 May 202334 Oak Street, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3BR
Received 15 May 202326 Church Street, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4BU
Received 15 May 202320 St James's Square, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 2TS
Received 15 May 202320 St James's Square, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 2TS
Received 15 May 2023Amberley House , Chew Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8QA
Received 15 May 202322 Crescent Gardens, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2NB
Received 15 May 2023The Old Rectory , Charlcombe Lane, Charlcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8DR
Received 15 May 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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