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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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Bath and North East Somerset Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
13,158 approved · 1,549 refused · 1,898 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jan 2012 to 13 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Selwood Place, Weston Park West, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AR
Received 15 Jan 2020First Floor Flat 1 Parkside, The Avenue, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5EQ
Received 15 Jan 202012 Oldfield Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3ND
Received 15 Jan 2020Unregistered Flat 104A, 104 Mount Road, Southdown, Bath,
Received 15 Jan 2020Garden Flat , 14 New King Street, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BL
Received 15 Jan 20205 Royal Crescent, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LR
Received 15 Jan 2020Bylanes, 6 Copse Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3TH
Received 15 Jan 2020Tolzey Cottage, Penn Hill Lane, Queen Charlton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2SJ
Received 15 Jan 202031 Circus Place, City Centre, Bath,
Received 15 Jan 2020Street Record, Lyncombe Vale, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset
Received 15 Jan 202053 Cameley Green, Twerton, Bath, BA2 1SB
Received 16 Jan 202012 Charlcombe Lane, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6NR
Received 16 Jan 2020Dallamore Rise, 17 Audley Grove, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BT
Received 16 Jan 202010 Lansdown Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5EX
Received 16 Jan 20207 Grosvenor Terrace, St Saviour's Road, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6SR
Received 16 Jan 2020Street Record, Laggan Gardens, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset
Received 16 Jan 2020The Old Rectory, Pilgrims Way, Chew Stoke, Bristol,
Received 16 Jan 202072 Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, BA2 3BG
Received 16 Jan 20207 The Batch, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3EN
Received 16 Jan 2020Violet Bank Farm, Prospect Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AY
Received 16 Jan 202014 Belgrave Road, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6LU
Received 16 Jan 2020Parcel 2100, Barrow Hill, Farmborough, Bath,
Received 16 Jan 2020Herons, High Street, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7TH
Received 16 Jan 2020Parcel 3700, Silver Street, Midsomer Norton,
Received 16 Jan 2020Records 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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