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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
30,606 approved · 2,961 refused · 3,238 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jan 2012 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 21 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Lock Cottage, Durley Lane, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2AJ
Received 26 Jun 202115 St Catherine's Close, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BS
Received 26 Jun 202111A Bailbrook Lane, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AH
Received 26 Jun 202174 Edgeworth Road, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2LU
Received 28 Jun 2021Church Farm House, High Street, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QS
Received 26 Jun 2021Church Farm House, High Street, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QS
Received 26 Jun 202115 Dartmouth Avenue, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1AS
Received 27 Jun 202117 Claremont Gardens, Hallatrow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6EY
Received 28 Jun 2021Rectory Farm, Pilgrims Way, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8TZ
Received 27 Jun 202117 Derwent Grove, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1NT
Received 28 Jun 20217 Oolite Grove, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2UF
Received 28 Jun 202138 Gladstone Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5HL
Received 28 Jun 2021Parcel 1800, Bathford Hill, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 28 Jun 202134 Combe Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5HY
Received 28 Jun 20215 Bailbrook Lane, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AH
Received 28 Jun 20212 Worcester Villas, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6QR
Received 28 Jun 20212 Worcester Villas, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6QR
Received 28 Jun 2021Radstock Building Supplies, Town Mills, Mill Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3PB
Received 28 Jun 2021Flat 2, 60 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DN
Received 28 Jun 2021Parcel 4823, Old Dunkerton Hill, Dunkerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 28 Jun 2021Street Record, Riverside Business Park, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 28 Jun 2021Shirley Villa, Beechen Cliff Road, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QS
Received 28 Jun 2021Street Record, Upper Bloomfield Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 Jun 202115 Grange End, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4XA
Received 28 Jun 2021Records 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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