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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
47,165 approved · 4,766 refused · 4,257 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 30 Jun 2008 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 27 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Parcel 9393, Mill Lane, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 9 Mar 2022Grey Courtledge, Richmond Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5PU
Received 9 Mar 2022Planning Applications Outside BANES, Planning, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 3 Mar 2022Windsor Bridge, Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DT
Received 9 Mar 2022Bathampton Lodge, High Street, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6SY
Received 9 Mar 2022Garfunkels , Orange Grove, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LP
Received 9 Mar 2022Morrison's, 11 Southgate Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1AQ
Received 9 Mar 202278 Frankland Close, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4EL
Received 9 Mar 202250 Church Road, Whitchurch, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0PN
Received 9 Mar 2022Tanglewood Lodge, Wells Road, Corston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9BA
Received 9 Mar 2022Tesco, Old Mills, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7SW
Received 9 Mar 202247 Edward Street, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 9 Mar 202236 Church Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4BT
Received 9 Mar 2022North Face , New Road, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7TR
Received 9 Mar 20221 Beaufort West, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6QB
Received 9 Mar 202299 Sydney Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NE
Received 9 Mar 20223 Upper Church Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2PT
Received 2 Mar 202228 Church Road, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8AA
Received 9 Mar 202218 Worcester Park, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6QU
Received 9 Mar 2022Flat 6, Victoria House, Dapps Hill, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1UL
Received 9 Mar 202283 Lower Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3HR
Received 9 Mar 2022White Hill Barn, White Hill, Shoscombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8LX
Received 9 Mar 20222 Webbs Mead, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8TP
Received 9 Mar 2022Garden Flat, 13 Newbridge Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3HE
Received 10 Mar 2022Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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.
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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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