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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
63,902 approved · 8,933 refused · 5,914 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Mar 1998 to 2 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 5 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7 Calton Walk, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QQ
Received 16 Jun 202359 Cranwells Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2YE
Received 16 Jun 2023University Of Bath , University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7AY
Received 16 Jun 2023Buchanan House , 4 Richmond Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TU
Received 16 Jun 2023The Grainstore, 1A Englishcombe Way, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EU
Received 16 Jun 20233 Belvedere Villas, Lansdown Road, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HS
Received 19 Jun 20231 Trent Grove, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1QD
Received 19 Jun 202335 Lorne Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3BY
Received 19 Jun 2023Halfway Farm , Stanton Road, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4ET
Received 19 Jun 2023Bathwick Hill House , Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HA
Received 19 Jun 2023Paulton Methodist Church , Park Road, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7QQ
Received 19 Jun 2023Penoakmoor , Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TD
Received 19 Jun 2023157 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JN
Received 19 Jun 2023Little Horse Croft Farm , Ford Road, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QF
Received 19 Jun 202341 Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BA
Received 19 Jun 20231 North Parade Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1NS
Received 19 Jun 2023Byfields, Wells Road, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3US
Received 19 Jun 2023Flat 2, 24 New King Street, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BL
Received 19 Jun 20239 Bailbrook Grove, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AP
Received 19 Jun 20239 Beaufort Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6RP
Received 19 Jun 202315 Kempthorne Lane, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DX
Received 19 Jun 20233 Bedford Street, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AF
Received 19 Jun 20233 Bedford Street, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AF
Received 19 Jun 202348 Hillcrest, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4AT
Received 20 Jun 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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