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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
62,243 approved · 8,623 refused · 5,752 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 10 Nov 2000 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Durham House , 5 Hamilton Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SB
Received 3 Jul 20231 Locksbrook Place, Upper Bristol Road, Lower Weston, Bath, BA1 3DG
Received 3 Jul 2023110 Wellsway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4SD
Received 3 Jul 2023Foxhill Grove Farm , Perrymead, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5BA
Received 3 Jul 202317A Caernarvon Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2NX
Received 3 Jul 202318 Victoria Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3QY
Received 3 Jul 2023Southwest House , Weston Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XU
Received 3 Jul 2023126 Rush Hill, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2QU
Received 3 Jul 202320 Southstoke Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5SN
Received 3 Jul 20238 Burleigh Gardens, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3RR
Received 3 Jul 2023Hazel Elm , Old Midford Road, Midford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7BY
Received 3 Jul 202333 Milton Avenue, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QZ
Received 3 Jul 20231 Tiledown, Temple Cloud, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5DW
Received 3 Jul 2023Oval Estates (bath) Ltd, The Oval Office, Cobblers Way, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3BX
Received 3 Jul 2023The Bage , Claverton Down Road, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7AS
Received 3 Jul 2023The Walled Garden, Kingwell Hall, Hayeswood Road, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HH
Received 3 Jul 20234 Macaulay Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AS
Received 3 Jul 2023The Wight House , College Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RU
Received 3 Jul 2023506 Wellsway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2UD
Received 3 Jul 202386 Rush Hill, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2QS
Received 4 Jul 202353 Prior Park Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NF
Received 4 Jul 202318 Sladebrook Avenue, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2LA
Received 4 Jul 2023Meadow Court, Brassmill Lane, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 4 Jul 202321 Cranwells Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2YD
Received 4 Jul 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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