Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
42,440 approved · 3,992 refused · 3,895 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Mar 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
Holburne Park (Former Mod Warminster Road) , Warminster Road, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 6SF
Received 19 Jan 2022Site Of Former Ministry Of Defence Offices, Warminster Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 19 Jan 2022Additional Development Area, Holburne Park, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 19 Jan 2022Chanctonbury, Shaft Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7HP
Received 19 Jan 2022Lark Barrow, Old Midford Road, Midford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7DQ
Received 19 Jan 202293B Sydney Mews, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4ED
Received 19 Jan 202293B Sydney Mews, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4ED
Received 19 Jan 20222 Woodhill Place, Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6EU
Received 20 Jan 2022Bridge House, Tunbridge Road, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SP
Received 20 Jan 20228 Mendip Gardens, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2UT
Received 20 Jan 2022Meadow View, 8 Kelston Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3QN
Received 20 Jan 202228 Fosseway South, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4AN
Received 20 Jan 2022Tynings Farm, Bromley Road, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4DJ
Received 20 Jan 2022Ailsa Craig, 21 Meadow View, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3QT
Received 20 Jan 202220 Darlington Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BX
Received 20 Jan 2022Somers Hill, Pilgrims Way, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8TZ
Received 20 Jan 2022Sewage Purification Works, Mead Lane, Saltford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3ER
Received 20 Jan 2022Land Nort Of Janes Grove, Janes Grove, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 20 Jan 2022Unit 75, Haydon Industrial Estate, Haydon, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3RD
Received 20 Jan 20229 Dunsford Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HF
Received 20 Jan 202224 Sydney Buildings, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BZ
Received 20 Jan 2022Street Record, The Elms, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 20 Jan 2022Flat 3, Helena Court, Dapps Hill, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1UP
Received 20 Jan 2022Land Between Mill House And Bridge House, Tunbridge Road, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 21 Jan 2022Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsArea alerts send a daily or weekly email with new applications and decisions near a postcode, filtered by project type. £29 a month, up to 3 areas. Records are limited to the councils we collect.
Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage