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
68,195 approved · 9,581 refused · 6,222 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
Peipards Farm , Warminster Road, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7UN
Received 30 Nov 2023Mill Place , Bromley Road, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4ER
Received 30 Nov 2023Writhlington Sports Centre , Knobsbury Lane, Writhlington, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3NQ
Received 30 Nov 202323 Penn Lea Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3RF
Received 30 Nov 2023High Hopes , Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TJ
Received 30 Nov 20232 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DA
Received 30 Nov 20232 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DA
Received 30 Nov 2023Qa Systems Ltd , 2 Palace Yard Mews, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2NH
Received 30 Nov 202333 Bloomfield Drive, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2BQ
Received 30 Nov 202331 Circus Place, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 30 Nov 202323 Priory Close, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AL
Received 30 Nov 20237 Goldney Way, Temple Cloud, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5DU
Received 30 Nov 2023Pitfour House , High Street, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HT
Received 30 Nov 20231 Percival Terrace , Church Lane, Farrington Gurney, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6TZ
Received 1 Dec 2023Planning Applications Outside BANES, Planning, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 1 Dec 2023The Royal Bank Of Scotland Plc, 8 - 9 Quiet Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2JN
Received 1 Dec 2023The Royal Bank Of Scotland Plc, 8 - 9 Quiet Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2JN
Received 1 Dec 20231 Winifreds Dale , Cavendish Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UD
Received 1 Dec 2023Amberley House , Chew Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8QA
Received 1 Dec 202319 Queen Square, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2HX
Received 1 Dec 202388 Whiteway Road, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2RH
Received 1 Dec 2023Widcombe Infant School , Archway Street, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4JG
Received 1 Dec 2023Widcombe Ce Junior School , Pulteney Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4JG
Received 1 Dec 202334 North Meadows, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8PS
Received 1 Dec 2023Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsArea alerts send a daily or weekly email with new applications and decisions near a postcode, filtered by project type. £29 a month, up to 3 areas. Records are limited to the councils we collect.
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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage