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
64,820 approved · 9,063 refused · 5,979 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
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Received 25 Sept 202318 Burlington Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2SB
Received 25 Sept 20235 Elliston Drive, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1LU
Received 25 Sept 20233 Greenway Lane, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LJ
Received 25 Sept 2023Station House , Station Road, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6TG
Received 25 Sept 202354 Milton Avenue, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4RA
Received 25 Sept 2023Littlewell Farm, Upper Radford, Paulton, Bath, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7PU
Received 26 Sept 202353 Combe Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3NH
Received 26 Sept 202313 Bloomfield Grove, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2BZ
Received 26 Sept 20231 Palace Yard Mews, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2NH
Received 26 Sept 2023The Old Vicarage, 110 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JJ
Received 26 Sept 2023St James House , The Square, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3BH
Received 26 Sept 20234 Gibbs Mews, Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BG
Received 26 Sept 202322 Brock Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LW
Received 26 Sept 202322 Brock Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LW
Received 26 Sept 2023North Range, Walcot Yard, Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 26 Sept 2023Second Floor Flat, 37 - 38 Kingsmead Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2AA
Received 26 Sept 20234 Prior Park Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NP
Received 26 Sept 20239 Van Diemen's Lane, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TW
Received 26 Sept 20234 Prior Park Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NP
Received 26 Sept 2023Old Stables , 55 Church Street, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RS
Received 26 Sept 202371 Hawthorn Grove, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5QF
Received 26 Sept 2023Grosvenor Villa , Grosvenor Bridge Road, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BB
Received 26 Sept 2023Chew Cottage , Pilgrims Way, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8UD
Received 27 Sept 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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