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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.
13,683 approved · 1,618 refused · 1,981 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Hope House, Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath,
Received 23 Mar 20205 Webbs Mead, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8TP
Received 23 Mar 202025 Upper Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3JX
Received 23 Mar 2020Tyning Cottage, Tunley Road, Tunley, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8BE
Received 23 Mar 202058 Birch Road, Westfield, BA3 3TP
Received 23 Mar 202024 - 25 Stall Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 1QF
Received 23 Mar 202021 St James's Park, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2ST
Received 23 Mar 2020Aquila Court, 34 Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, BA2 3GX
Received 23 Mar 2020Tower House, Kelston Road, Kelston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9AF
Received 23 Mar 2020Comfort Inn, 27 - 29 Henrietta Street, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 6LR
Received 23 Mar 20205 Webbs Mead, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8TP
Received 23 Mar 2020The Bird, 18 - 19 Pulteney Road, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 4EZ
Received 23 Mar 202029 St Mark's Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PA
Received 24 Mar 2020Hunstrete House , Hunstrete, Marksbury, Bristol, BS39 4NS
Received 24 Mar 202018 Calton Gardens, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QG
Received 24 Mar 20201 Selworthy House, Sedgemoor Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NZ
Received 24 Mar 2020Site Of Former Ministry Of Defence Offices, Warminster Road, Bathwick, Bath,
Received 24 Mar 202060 Cranwells Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2YE
Received 24 Mar 202024 Mount Road, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1LD
Received 25 Mar 202048 Bradford Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5BY
Received 23 Mar 2020Abbey House , 3 Abbey Park, Keynsham, BS31 2BT
Received 25 Mar 2020Tasburgh House Hotel, Warminster Road, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6SH
Received 25 Mar 20201 Armes Court, Bath, BA2 4JY
Received 25 Mar 2020Former Ministry Of Defence Foxhill Premises, Bradford Road, Combe Down, Bath,
Received 25 Mar 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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