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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
62,694 approved · 8,717 refused · 5,795 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
8 Coombend, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3AJ
Received 13 Jul 202312 Victoria Gardens, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RD
Received 13 Jul 202310 Mollie Taylor Avenue, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BN
Received 13 Jul 2023Flat 1, 7 Victoria Buildings, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3EH
Received 12 Jul 2023Parcel 6536, Top Lane, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Jul 2023Site Of Old Colliery, Fry's Bottom, Chelwood, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Jul 2023Flat 61, Connaught Mansions, Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BP
Received 13 Jul 2023Esher Lodge , Chaucer Road, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QY
Received 13 Jul 2023Parcel 5068, Denny Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Jul 2023Basement, 5 Camden Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HY
Received 13 Jul 2023Basement, 5 Camden Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HY
Received 13 Jul 2023Parcel 9393, Mill Lane, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Jul 202322 Orwell Drive, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1QB
Received 13 Jul 20234A St Ann's Place, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BJ
Received 13 Jul 2023Street Record, Kaynton Mead, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Jul 2023100 Haycombe Drive, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1PN
Received 13 Jul 202366 Entry Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NA
Received 13 Jul 2023Garden Flat, Ashleigh, 92 Wells Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AR
Received 13 Jul 2023Bathwick House, Bathwick Street, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 6NX
Received 13 Jul 202314 Shelley Road, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4RJ
Received 13 Jul 20238 Coombend, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3AJ
Received 14 Jul 20238A Monmouth Place, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2AU
Received 14 Jul 2023Tanglewood Cottage , Nempnett Street, Nempnett Thrubwell, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8YS
Received 14 Jul 20235 St Catherine's Close, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BS
Received 14 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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