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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
68,195 approved · 9,581 refused · 6,222 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Nov 1997 to 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 7 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Woodlands , North Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HB
Received 24 Nov 2023Brook House, Pilgrims Way, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8XB
Received 24 Nov 2023Publow Farm , Blackrock Lane, Publow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4HZ
Received 24 Nov 202385 The Oval, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2HE
Received 24 Nov 2023Masons Cottage , 281 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2NU
Received 24 Nov 2023Woodland View , Single Hill, Shoscombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8LZ
Received 24 Nov 2023Flat 1, 24 The Paragon, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5LY
Received 24 Nov 2023Thorn Barton , College Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RU
Received 24 Nov 2023Tasman House , 32 Van Diemen's Lane, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TW
Received 27 Nov 2023Parcel 4062, Midford Road, Midford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 27 Nov 20233 Highbury Road, Hallatrow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6EF
Received 27 Nov 202361 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JQ
Received 27 Nov 20235 Elliston Drive, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1LU
Received 27 Nov 202330 Waterloo Road, Radstock, BA3 3ER
Received 27 Nov 202355 Springfield Buildings, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3JB
Received 27 Nov 20238 Southbourne Gardens, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6LZ
Received 27 Nov 2023Staff Car Park North, Royal United Hospital, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 27 Nov 2023Staff Car Park North, Royal United Hospital, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 27 Nov 202345 High Street, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3EJ
Received 27 Nov 20233 Oakfield Close, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XR
Received 27 Nov 202371 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PH
Received 27 Nov 2023Land And Buildings To South Of Double Hill Farm, Wellow Road, Shoscombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 27 Nov 202376 Frankland Close, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4EL
Received 27 Nov 2023Hotel Indigo, 4 - 8 South Parade, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4AB
Received 27 Nov 2023Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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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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