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
64,941 approved · 9,082 refused · 5,991 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
15 Kempthorne Lane, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DX
Received 2 Oct 2023Parcel 9680, Shockerwick Lane, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 2 Oct 202331 Bailbrook Lane, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AN
Received 2 Oct 2023Little Cottage , Sham Castle Lane, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JL
Received 2 Oct 20236 Linden Gardens, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2YB
Received 2 Oct 20235 The Brow, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JL
Received 2 Oct 2023Bailbrook House Hotel , Eveleigh Avenue, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7JD
Received 2 Oct 2023Garden Maisonette, 11 Widcombe Crescent, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AH
Received 2 Oct 2023170 North Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DL
Received 29 Sept 2023Parcel 9749, Colliers Lane, Charlcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 2 Oct 2023Mayfield House , Bristol Road, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8UB
Received 2 Oct 20235 Lime Grove Gardens, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4HE
Received 2 Oct 2023Denham , Yew Tree Lane, Compton Martin, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6JS
Received 2 Oct 202310 Brookfield Park, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4JF
Received 2 Oct 2023The Walled Garden, Kingwell Hall, Hayeswood Road, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HH
Received 2 Oct 2023Prior Park College , Ralph Allen Drive, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AH
Received 2 Oct 202342 Eastbourne Avenue, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6EN
Received 3 Oct 20233A Cotton Mead, Corston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9AU
Received 3 Oct 2023Flat 4, 18 Bennett Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QL
Received 3 Oct 202311 Woodhouse Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1SS
Received 3 Oct 202317 Lyme Gardens, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3LW
Received 3 Oct 2023Pen-y-fal, Perrymead, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AY
Received 3 Oct 2023Pulteney Court, Pulteney Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 3 Oct 202380 Eastover Road, High Littleton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6HZ
Received 3 Oct 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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