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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
43,786 approved · 4,133 refused · 3,971 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Thatch, The Chalks, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SN
Received 19 Apr 2022Land West Of Providence Bungalow, Frome Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 19 Apr 202235 Walden Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1QW
Received 19 Apr 202276 Priory Close, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AP
Received 19 Apr 20227 Caroline Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4JH
Received 19 Apr 20227 Caroline Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4JH
Received 19 Apr 202224 Bennett Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QL
Received 19 Apr 20222A Beaufort Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6RP
Received 19 Apr 2022De Montalt Mill, Summer Lane, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 19 Apr 2022De Montalt Mill, Summer Lane, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 19 Apr 2022Former Radstock County Infant School, Bath Old Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 19 Apr 2022Former Police Station, Bath Hill, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 19 Apr 202228 Brougham Hayes, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3QU
Received 19 Apr 202211 Lorne Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3BY
Received 19 Apr 20227 Springfield Buildings , Old Mills, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7SP
Received 19 Apr 202218 Upper Borough Walls, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1RJ
Received 19 Apr 202218 Upper Borough Walls, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1RJ
Received 19 Apr 2022Mercedes Benz Of Bath, Bath Business Park, Foxcote Avenue, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8SF
Received 19 Apr 2022Ashlars, Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AE
Received 19 Apr 2022Street Record, Temple Street, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 19 Apr 2022Fabulous , 17 St Lawrence Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1AN
Received 19 Apr 2022Site Of Old Timber Yard, Tyning Road, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 11 Apr 2022St Johns, Combe Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3NF
Received 20 Apr 2022Barn Coversion East Of Greenleigh Farm, Wells Road, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 20 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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