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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
41,054 approved · 3,864 refused · 3,835 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Jul 2010 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 25 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
47 Bloomfield Park, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2BX
Received 5 Jan 202239 St John's Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BW
Received 5 Jan 202215 Gladstone Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5HN
Received 5 Jan 20229 Falconer Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4NH
Received 5 Jan 2022St Pirran, 25 Horsecombe Brow, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5QY
Received 5 Jan 2022Brook Cottage, St Catherine Lane, St Catherine, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8HA
Received 5 Jan 2022Hillside, Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AR
Received 6 Jan 20223 St John's Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BN
Received 6 Jan 202212 Beaufort Avenue, Welton, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2TG
Received 6 Jan 2022Horton House, Forester Avenue, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Jan 20227 St James's Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2TW
Received 6 Jan 20227 St James's Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2TW
Received 6 Jan 2022Parcel 1032, Bonhill Lane, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Jan 2022Parcel 4668, Pensford Lane, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Jan 20222 Holcombe Grove, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2EZ
Received 6 Jan 202244 Glebelands, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3SU
Received 6 Jan 202262 Lower Whitelands, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3JP
Received 6 Jan 2022Somercombe, Mill Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 5TY
Received 6 Jan 2022Twerton Sluice Gate, Weston Island, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Jan 2022Stone Lea Cottage, 70 Entry Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NA
Received 6 Jan 20223 High Bannerdown, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7JY
Received 7 Jan 2022Portugal House, 47 High Street, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8PR
Received 7 Jan 202238 West View Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2UA
Received 7 Jan 2022Tanglewood, Wells Road, Corston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9BA
Received 7 Jan 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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