Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
63,150 approved · 8,812 refused · 5,841 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Mar 1998 to 2 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 4 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Street Record, Parsonage Lane, Publow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 3 Aug 2023Unit 1, First Avenue, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4BS
Received 3 Aug 2023Flat 7, 21 Queen Square, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2HX
Received 3 Aug 2023Baroda , The Avenue, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5EQ
Received 3 Aug 2023Block 16 North Wing, Royal United Hospital, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3NG
Received 3 Aug 2023Street Record, Manvers Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 3 Aug 2023Street Record, New Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 3 Aug 2023Street Record, New Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 3 Aug 20234 North Parade, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LF
Received 3 Aug 202312 Belmont, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5DZ
Received 3 Aug 2023Land & Buildings At Junction With Crab Tree Tyning, Kilkenny Lane, Englishcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 4 Aug 2023Charlcombe Grange , Charlcombe Lane, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8DL
Received 4 Aug 2023Shalom, Dragons Hill Close, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1LL
Received 4 Aug 2023End Farm, St Catherine Lane, St Catherine, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8HA
Received 4 Aug 2023Flat 3, 11 George Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2EH
Received 4 Aug 2023Allotment Gardens, Redland Park, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 4 Aug 20234 Macaulay Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AS
Received 2 Aug 2023Brook Cottage , Whitecross Road, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6AA
Received 4 Aug 2023Tyning Inn , Walnut Buildings, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3JL
Received 4 Aug 2023Little Bambinos Nursery, Millmead Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3JW
Received 4 Aug 2023Novar , Perrymead, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AX
Received 4 Aug 202319 Audley Grove, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BT
Received 4 Aug 2023Hotel Indigo, 4 - 8 South Parade, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4AB
Received 4 Aug 20232 Southlands Drive, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HB
Received 7 Aug 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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