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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
31,450 approved · 3,016 refused · 3,286 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jan 2012 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Trinity Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AB
Received 7 Jul 2021Lych Gate, Perrymead, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AX
Received 6 Jul 202147 Greenacres, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4NP
Received 7 Jul 2021Street Record, St Clement's Road, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 7 Jul 202111 Dunster Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1WB
Received 6 Jul 2021Linden Lodge, Linden Gardens, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2YB
Received 6 Jul 2021Islett, Pagans Hill, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8QJ
Received 6 Jul 202114 The Tyning, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AL
Received 7 Jul 20219 Badminton Gardens, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XS
Received 8 Jul 2021Greenlands, Stanton Road, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4ES
Received 8 Jul 2021Parcel 3700, Silver Street, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 9 Jul 2021Parcel 2000, Silver Street, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 9 Jul 2021Park Farm House, Church Lane, Kelston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9AG
Received 9 Jul 202123 Summer Leaze, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5EG
Received 9 Jul 2021104 High Street, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7TH
Received 9 Jul 2021104 High Street, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7TH
Received 9 Jul 202110 Lambridge Mews, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6QE
Received 9 Jul 202110 Lambridge Mews, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6QE
Received 9 Jul 2021Second Floor, 18 Royal Crescent, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LT
Received 9 Jul 2021Denewood, Broomhill Lane, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5SA
Received 9 Jul 202131 Circus Place, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 9 Jul 202131 Circus Place, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 9 Jul 20215 Hantone Hill, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6XD
Received 9 Jul 2021Tanglewood, Wells Road, Corston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9BA
Received 9 Jul 2021Records 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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