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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
36,232 approved · 3,434 refused · 3,575 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Aug 2011 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Parcel 3615, Wells Road, Hallatrow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 8 Dec 202169 Lockingwell Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2EF
Received 8 Dec 20216 Raby Mews, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 8 Dec 202123 Forester Avenue, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QD
Received 8 Dec 2021Coombe House, Church Street, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4AQ
Received 8 Dec 2021203 Whiteway Road, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2RG
Received 8 Dec 20216 Raby Mews, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 8 Dec 2021Prospect Villa, 11A Seven Acre Lane, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7HE
Received 8 Dec 202112 Dowding Road, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6QJ
Received 9 Dec 202110 York Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1NH
Received 9 Dec 202123 Brookside Close, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7NN
Received 9 Dec 2021Gardeners Cottage, Hook, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0NE
Received 9 Dec 202170 Wells Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AR
Received 9 Dec 2021Belluton Cottage, Stanton Road, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4JJ
Received 9 Dec 2021Perrycroft, Midford Lane, Limpley Stoke, Bath, Wiltshire, BA2 7DF
Received 9 Dec 2021Southwest House, Weston Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XU
Received 9 Dec 2021Parcel 5159, Minsmere Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 9 Dec 2021Garden Flat, 14 Catharine Place, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2PR
Received 9 Dec 202110 York Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1NH
Received 9 Dec 2021Grey Gables, Shaft Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7HP
Received 10 Dec 2021The House, The Street, Ubley, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6PJ
Received 10 Dec 202119 Cedric Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PD
Received 10 Dec 2021Ground Floor, 42 Rivers Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QA
Received 10 Dec 2021Bramley House, Hillcrest, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4AS
Received 10 Dec 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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