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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
60,493 approved · 8,255 refused · 5,593 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
3 Flatwoods Crescent, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7AH
Received 24 Apr 2023Flat 3, 25 Marlborough Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LY
Received 24 Apr 20235 Manor Close, Farrington Gurney, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6UT
Received 24 Apr 2023Mill Place , Bromley Road, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4ER
Received 24 Apr 2023Columbus House , Trossachs Drive, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RP
Received 24 Apr 2023Wessex Water Kiosk, Battle Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 24 Apr 2023Bellfield , The Avenue, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7AX
Received 24 Apr 2023Parcel 6536, Top Lane, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 24 Apr 2023Prospect Style Farm, Widcombe Hill, Hinton Blewett, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5AS
Received 24 Apr 20239 Van Diemen's Lane, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TW
Received 24 Apr 202321 Balmoral Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1AN
Received 24 Apr 202316 Prior Park Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NP
Received 24 Apr 2023322 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2PA
Received 24 Apr 2023Flat 3 First Floor, 3 Lansdown Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5EX
Received 24 Apr 2023Flat 3 First Floor, 3 Lansdown Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5EX
Received 24 Apr 2023Garden Flat, 6 Marlborough Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LX
Received 24 Apr 2023Bonnie Banks , Ralph Allen Drive, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AE
Received 24 Apr 2023561 Bath Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 24 Apr 20231 Alexandra Place, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5EU
Received 24 Apr 2023Newton Hurst, Darlington Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NL
Received 24 Apr 2023Meadowland , 36 Bloomfield Park, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2BX
Received 24 Apr 202326 The Batch, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7DR
Received 24 Apr 2023Prospect House , Prospect Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AY
Received 24 Apr 2023Basement, 11 Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AX
Received 25 Apr 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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