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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
37,508 approved · 3,549 refused · 3,642 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 10 May 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
135 Wells Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AN
Received 15 Nov 202143 Radstock Road, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2AN
Received 15 Nov 2021Land To North West Of Junction With Mill Road, Frome Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 15 Nov 2021Garage 1 To Rear Of 25, Combe Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 15 Nov 202120 Horseshoe Walk, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DE
Received 15 Nov 2021Old Waggon & Horses, Hobbs Wall, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0BH
Received 16 Nov 20212 Pulteney Grove, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4HQ
Received 16 Nov 202144 Warminster Road, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6XJ
Received 16 Nov 2021Ailean, Weston Lane, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AA
Received 16 Nov 2021Kelston Barn, 1 Cullimore's Lane, Kelston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9AQ
Received 16 Nov 2021Rosemount, Ham Hill, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3BA
Received 16 Nov 2021Empty Shop Premises, 50 High Street, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2DL
Received 16 Nov 2021Bridge House, 168 Newbridge Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3LE
Received 16 Nov 20217 Widcombe Terrace, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AJ
Received 16 Nov 202118 Southlands Drive, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HB
Received 16 Nov 202136 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PH
Received 16 Nov 20212 Ivy Place, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1AR
Received 16 Nov 2021Midsomer Norton County Primary School, High Street, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2DR
Received 16 Nov 2021Land Rear Of 56 To 76, Bath Hill, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 16 Nov 2021Haydon Que Club, Kilmersdon Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3QR
Received 17 Nov 202122 Royal Crescent, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LT
Received 17 Nov 2021Saltford Farm, 565 Bath Road, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3JS
Received 17 Nov 2021Bridge House, Streamside, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8RQ
Received 17 Nov 2021Jasmin, Sutton Hill Road, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5UR
Received 17 Nov 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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