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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
43,388 approved · 4,094 refused · 3,957 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 23 Dec 2009 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Ground Floor Maisonette, 11 Brock Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LN
Received 7 Apr 2022Field House , Church Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8TU
Received 7 Apr 2022Basement Ground Floor, 7 Walcot Terrace, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AB
Received 7 Apr 2022Windmill Barn , Wellow Road, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8RG
Received 7 Apr 202230A Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PQ
Received 7 Apr 20229 Calton Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PP
Received 7 Apr 2022Holt House , Farmborough Lane, Priston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9EH
Received 7 Apr 202251 Canons Close, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2LN
Received 7 Apr 202265 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PH
Received 7 Apr 202242A Audley Grove, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BT
Received 7 Apr 20221 Clyde Avenue, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1PZ
Received 7 Apr 2022Friary Dene , Warminster Road, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7TE
Received 7 Apr 20227 Alfred Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QU
Received 7 Apr 20227 Alfred Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QU
Received 7 Apr 20227 Primrose Hill, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2US
Received 7 Apr 2022124 High Street, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7TH
Received 7 Apr 2022St Pauls House, 1A St Paul's Place, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2AY
Received 8 Apr 2022Salaine , Morley Terrace, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3HU
Received 8 Apr 2022Chapel Of St Mary Magdalen, Holloway, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PX
Received 8 Apr 2022Tynemore Farmhouse , Stowey Road, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5TG
Received 8 Apr 202216 Kellaway Lane, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5EA
Received 8 Apr 20221 Sulis Manor Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AL
Received 8 Apr 2022Stoke Hill Mine, Midford Lane, Limpley Stoke, Bath, Wiltshire, BA2 7GP
Received 8 Apr 202220 The Mead, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0AG
Received 9 Apr 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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