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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
68,478 approved · 9,635 refused · 6,244 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 Aug 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Westmoreland Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3EU
Received 10 Nov 2023Hartley Wood , King Lane, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5QA
Received 10 Nov 202342 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DR
Received 10 Nov 2023Street Record, Avondale Court, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 10 Nov 202314 Sion Hill, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UH
Received 10 Nov 20234 Cambridge Place , Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AB
Received 10 Nov 20234 Cambridge Place , Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AB
Received 10 Nov 202382 Warminster Road, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RU
Received 10 Nov 2023Bath City Farm , Kelston View, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1NW
Received 10 Nov 2023128 Lower Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3HS
Received 10 Nov 202394 Cedric Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PB
Received 10 Nov 20232 Holwell Close, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7TD
Received 13 Nov 202386 Rush Hill, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2QS
Received 13 Nov 2023Rochelle , Tennis Court Road, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7LU
Received 13 Nov 202347 Thicket Mead, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2ST
Received 13 Nov 2023Hope Cottage , Greendown Place, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DD
Received 13 Nov 20235 Dover Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6DX
Received 13 Nov 20237 Armes Court, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Nov 202318 Sion Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SG
Received 13 Nov 202317 Springfield Place, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RA
Received 13 Nov 2023Holly Tree House , High Street, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QA
Received 13 Nov 2023Shirley Cottage , Beechen Cliff Road, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QS
Received 13 Nov 2023Shirley Cottage , Beechen Cliff Road, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QS
Received 13 Nov 2023The Old Crown, 1 Crown Hill, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4BP
Received 11 Nov 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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