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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
35,159 approved · 3,332 refused · 3,511 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Jan 2012 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 23 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7 Edgar Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2EE
Received 18 Sept 202134 Priory Close, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2HZ
Received 20 Sept 2021Rotork Controls Limited, Rotork House, Brassmill Lane, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3JQ
Received 20 Sept 202125 Audley Park Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XJ
Received 20 Sept 202119 Forester Avenue, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QD
Received 19 Sept 202114 Penn Lea Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3RA
Received 19 Sept 202137 Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LD
Received 20 Sept 202118 Alpine Gardens, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5PE
Received 20 Sept 202129 Partis Way, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3QQ
Received 20 Sept 202132 Oldfield Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3ND
Received 20 Sept 202132 Oldfield Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3ND
Received 20 Sept 2021City Of Bath College, Avon Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1UP
Received 20 Sept 2021Long Close, High Street, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6AX
Received 20 Sept 2021Stoneacre Bungalow, Stowey Road, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5TG
Received 20 Sept 202115 Entry Rise, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5LR
Received 20 Sept 202117 Mountain Ash, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UU
Received 20 Sept 20218 Rudgeway Road, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7RE
Received 20 Sept 2021Pitway Farmhouse, Pitway Lane, Farrington Gurney, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6TX
Received 20 Sept 202137 Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LD
Received 20 Sept 202131 Midford Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5RW
Received 21 Sept 202110 Argyle Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BQ
Received 21 Sept 2021Publow Farm, Blackrock Lane, Publow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4HZ
Received 21 Sept 2021Publow Farm, Blackrock Lane, Publow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4HZ
Received 21 Sept 2021Jelf Group, 1 Crescent Office Park, Clarks Way, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AF
Received 21 Sept 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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