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
50,404 approved · 5,656 refused · 4,603 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Jun 2006 to 26 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 29 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
First Pond, Bath Spa University Campus, Newton St Loe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Sept 2022Flat 1, 4 Great Stanhope Street, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BQ
Received 13 Sept 202283 Sladebrook Road, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1LP
Received 13 Sept 202252A Specklemead, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7ND
Received 13 Sept 202285 Sladebrook Road, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1LP
Received 13 Sept 2022Parish's House , Hook, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0ND
Received 13 Sept 2022Parish's House , Hook, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0ND
Received 13 Sept 2022Parish's House , Hook, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0ND
Received 13 Sept 2022Poultry Houses, Langfords Lane, High Littleton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Sept 2022Bath Spa Railway Station, Dorchester Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SU
Received 13 Sept 202211 Hillcrest Drive, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1HD
Received 13 Sept 202213 Westfield Park South , Brassmill Lane, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3HT
Received 13 Sept 2022Poultry Houses, Langfords Lane, High Littleton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Sept 202210 Northend, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7EN
Received 14 Sept 202252 Park Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1BU
Received 14 Sept 202260 Entry Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NA
Received 14 Sept 2022Land At Gullen Shoscombe, Gullen, Shoscombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 Sept 202212 Northend, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7EN
Received 14 Sept 2022Vineyards Farm , Claverton Hill, Claverton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7BE
Received 14 Sept 2022Church Farm , Church Square, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5SG
Received 14 Sept 202211 Falconer Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 Sept 2022Laurel Gardens , South Road, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0EP
Received 14 Sept 202212 St Winifred's Drive, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7HR
Received 14 Sept 2022Argos, 32 High Street, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2DW
Received 14 Sept 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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