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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
62,126 approved · 8,594 refused · 5,745 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 Jan 2001 to 2 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 4 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Prior Park Garden Centre , Prior Park Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NF
Received 10 Apr 2023Bromley Mount , Bromley Road, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4DE
Received 11 Apr 202361 High Street, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3EW
Received 10 Apr 202312 Bennett's Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AW
Received 10 Apr 2023101 Lymore Avenue, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1AY
Received 11 Apr 2023Cam Bridge Barn , Temple Bridge, Temple Cloud, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5AA
Received 11 Apr 202316 Bloomfield Park, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2BY
Received 11 Apr 2023Cross Manufacturing Co Ltd , Midford Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5RR
Received 11 Apr 2023Loch Fyne Fish Restaurant, 24 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DG
Received 11 Apr 2023Norton Hill Colliery Tip, Gullock Tyning, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 11 Apr 2023Oldfield School , Kelston Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9AB
Received 11 Apr 202313 Coronation Avenue, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2JT
Received 11 Apr 2023Cinderlands , Cameley Road, Cameley, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5AF
Received 11 Apr 20234 Cavendish Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UG
Received 11 Apr 202321 Darlington Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BX
Received 12 Apr 2023Coley Cottage , Coley Road, Coley, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6AN
Received 12 Apr 2023Willow Barn , Lower Farm Lane, Corston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9AQ
Received 12 Apr 202347 Longfellow Avenue, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4SJ
Received 12 Apr 202313 Charmouth Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3LJ
Received 12 Apr 202355 Naishes Avenue, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8TF
Received 12 Apr 2023Midsomer Norton Power Generation Plant, Midsomer Enterprise Park, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2BB
Received 12 Apr 20231A Lansdown Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5EX
Received 12 Apr 202312A Northgate Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5AS
Received 12 Apr 20231A Lansdown Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5EX
Received 12 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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