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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
68,087 approved · 9,572 refused · 6,215 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Nov 1997 to 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Little Orchard, Church Street, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BB
Received 29 Aug 2023Ridgeway , Upper Bristol Road, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5RH
Received 29 Aug 20237 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AD
Received 29 Aug 2023100 Newbridge Hill, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3QB
Received 29 Aug 2023George House , The Square, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QQ
Received 29 Aug 20238 Innox Grove, Englishcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9DX
Received 29 Aug 2023Street Record, May Lane, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 29 Aug 2023Courtyard Appartment, 15 Burlington Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2SA
Received 29 Aug 20234 Lansdown Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5EX
Received 29 Aug 20234 Lansdown Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5EX
Received 29 Aug 2023Church Farm , Church Lane, Priston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9EF
Received 30 Aug 2023Westhill House , The Lower Lane, Combe Hay, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7EG
Received 30 Aug 2023Flat 4, 30 The Paragon, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5LY
Received 30 Aug 2023Walcot Playing Field, Walcot Gate, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 Aug 20238 Claverton Drive, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7AJ
Received 30 Aug 202351 Audley Park Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XL
Received 30 Aug 202318 Courtlands, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1DD
Received 30 Aug 2023Second Floor, 14 Johnstone Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DH
Received 30 Aug 2023Sharpstone House , Sharpstone Lane, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7UA
Received 31 Aug 2023Gainsborough Lodge, Rockery Park, North Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DN
Received 31 Aug 2023West Brow , Belmont Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JR
Received 31 Aug 2023Street Record, Fairy Hill, Compton Dando, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 24 Aug 2023Westover , Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RB
Received 31 Aug 202317 Arlington Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3PG
Received 31 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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