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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
61,497 approved · 8,486 refused · 5,693 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Lower Dene , 14 Charlcombe Way, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6JZ
Received 20 Mar 2023Court Farm House , High Street, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8PU
Received 20 Mar 2023Shalam , Ivy Place, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1AR
Received 20 Mar 20231 Bailbrook Grove, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AP
Received 20 Mar 202380 Gloucester Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AU
Received 20 Mar 2023The Old Cider Barn , Dumpers Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SS
Received 20 Mar 20233 The Square, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QE
Received 20 Mar 202312 - 13 Queen Square, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2HJ
Received 20 Mar 2023Springfield Cottage , 124 Rush Hill, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2QU
Received 20 Mar 2023Cranwell House, Weston Park East, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UZ
Received 20 Mar 2023Storage Yard Adjacent To Argyle Works , Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DB
Received 20 Mar 2023Telephone Exchange, Waterloo Road, Radstock,
Received 20 Mar 2023High Meadow , College Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RR
Received 20 Mar 2023Parcel 2881, Queens Road, North Stoke, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 20 Mar 202386 Rush Hill, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2QS
Received 20 Mar 202345 Grange Road, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3AQ
Received 20 Mar 202314 Park Lane, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XH
Received 20 Mar 2023166 Redland Park, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1SQ
Received 20 Mar 202328 Fox Hill, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5QN
Received 21 Mar 202314 Chaffinch Avenue, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2FR
Received 21 Mar 202326 Crescent Lane, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LU
Received 16 Mar 2023Food Machinery 2000 Ltd , Comfortable Place, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3AJ
Received 21 Mar 2023Whistley Farm , Whistley Lane, West Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6HD
Received 21 Mar 20233 Fersfield, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AR
Received 21 Mar 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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