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
61,029 approved · 8,390 refused · 5,653 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
Nelson House , 2 Pierrepont Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LB
Received 15 May 202327 Rockliffe Avenue, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QP
Received 16 May 2023Laurel Farm , Poor Hill, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0FP
Received 16 May 20231 Culverhay, Compton Dando, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4LQ
Received 16 May 20238 Ashley Avenue, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3DR
Received 16 May 2023Clan House, Sydney Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 16 May 2023Undeveloped Land To Rear Of 6-8, Kensington Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 16 May 202329 Bath Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1SL
Received 16 May 2023Little Court, Bannerdown Road, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7NE
Received 16 May 20232 Chantry Mead Road, Moorlands, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2DA
Received 16 May 202341 Severus Street, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2GD
Received 16 May 202310 Sladebrook Avenue, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2LA
Received 16 May 2023Platinum Accident Repair Centre (renrod Limited), 22 - 24 Cheltenham Street, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3EX
Received 16 May 202357 Milton Avenue, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4RA
Received 16 May 2023Combe Royal , Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6EQ
Received 16 May 2023Mill Island, The Shallows, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3EX
Received 16 May 2023Mill Island, The Shallows, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3EX
Received 16 May 2023Trevone , Sham Castle Lane, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JL
Received 16 May 20232 Entry Hill Park, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5ND
Received 17 May 202316 Forester Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QF
Received 17 May 20236 South Parade, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SH
Received 17 May 2023Monkton Combe Prep School, Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7ET
Received 17 May 2023Street Record, Avon Lane, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 16 May 2023Vine House , Sutton Hill Road, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5UW
Received 17 May 2023Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsArea alerts send a daily or weekly email with new applications and decisions near a postcode, filtered by project type. £29 a month, up to 3 areas. Records are limited to the councils we collect.
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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage