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
48,728 approved · 5,211 refused · 4,419 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Jan 2007 to 26 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 28 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Crossland , 1 Sion Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SQ
Received 14 Jul 2022Barcote House , Lansdown Grove, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5EN
Received 14 Jul 2022Norton Lane Farm , Norton Lane, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QR
Received 14 Jul 2022Kelston Barn , 1 Cullimore's Lane, Kelston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9AQ
Received 14 Jul 20228 Magdalen Avenue, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QB
Received 14 Jul 20222 Bath Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SA
Received 14 Jul 202216 - 17 Walcot Buildings, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AD
Received 14 Jul 20228 Dymboro Avenue, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2QR
Received 14 Jul 202220 Triangle East, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3HZ
Received 14 Jul 2022138 The Hollow, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1NF
Received 14 Jul 2022Hilston, 29 Cleveland Walk, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JW
Received 13 Jul 202251 Englishcombe Lane, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EE
Received 13 Jul 2022Macaulay Cottage , Macaulay Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AT
Received 14 Jul 20224 Combeside, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LU
Received 15 Jul 2022The Old Vicarage , Hatfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2BD
Received 15 Jul 2022Callisto , 6 Hanover Street, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6PP
Received 15 Jul 2022Lulu Caffe, 1 Hot Bath Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SJ
Received 15 Jul 2022Barton Meade House , 126 Kilmersdon Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3QS
Received 15 Jul 2022Barton Meade House , 126 Kilmersdon Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3QS
Received 15 Jul 20223 Bladud Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5LS
Received 15 Jul 2022Manor Farm, Millards Hill, Welton, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2BW
Received 15 Jul 2022Twerton Mill , Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1EZ
Received 15 Jul 2022Cleveland Bridge, Cleveland Bridge, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5DH
Received 15 Jul 20222 The Circus, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2EW
Received 15 Jul 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