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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
40,215 approved · 3,787 refused · 3,795 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 11 Oct 2010 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 24 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bath Cricket Club, North Parade Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EX
Received 18 Feb 2022Bath Waterside Travelodge Hotel, Rossiter Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4JP
Received 18 Feb 20221 Back Lane, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1ET
Received 21 Feb 20221 Dafford's Buildings, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6SG
Received 21 Feb 2022Lawrence House, Lower Bristol Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9ET
Received 21 Feb 2022Street Record, Holburne Park, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 15 Feb 2022Parcel 5076, Walley Court Road, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 21 Feb 202246 Bloomfield Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AE
Received 21 Feb 2022Garage Block, Brookside Close, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 21 Feb 2022Maisonette, Danvers House, 20 High Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5AJ
Received 21 Feb 202214 Penn Gardens, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3RZ
Received 21 Feb 2022Red Lion , The Street, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5UT
Received 21 Feb 202216 Springfield Place, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RA
Received 21 Feb 202216 Springfield Place, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RA
Received 21 Feb 2022Site Of Former Ministry Of Defence Offices, Warminster Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 21 Feb 20222 Vale View, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3QD
Received 21 Feb 2022Basement, 2 Rivers Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2PZ
Received 21 Feb 20221 Linley Close, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1QH
Received 21 Feb 20221 The Dring, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3SE
Received 21 Feb 202236 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PH
Received 22 Feb 202236 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PH
Received 22 Feb 202236 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PH
Received 22 Feb 202236 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PH
Received 22 Feb 202210 Penn Lea Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3RA
Received 22 Feb 2022Records 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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