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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
53,230 approved · 6,483 refused · 4,905 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 31 Dec 2004 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 30 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
14 Beauford Square, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1HJ
Received 30 Sept 202215 Beauford Square, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1HJ
Received 30 Sept 202210 Park Lane, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XQ
Received 30 Sept 2022Land Parcel 7200, Bath Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 30 Sept 2022Ye Grange , High Street, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6SY
Received 30 Sept 2022Ye Grange , High Street, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6SY
Received 30 Sept 2022The Old Rectory , Church Lane, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6BD
Received 30 Sept 2022Unregistered Unit 1-4, Old Station Yard, Avon Mill Lane, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 30 Sept 202210 Hampton Row, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QS
Received 30 Sept 202210 Hampton Row, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QS
Received 30 Sept 20226 Henrietta Gardens, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LZ
Received 30 Sept 20229 St Catherine's Close, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BS
Received 30 Sept 2022Ground Floor, 15 Bladud Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5LS
Received 3 Oct 2022Ground Floor, 15 Bladud Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5LS
Received 3 Oct 2022Willow Farm , Flatts Lane, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HJ
Received 3 Oct 202232 Combe Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3NR
Received 3 Oct 202228 St James's Square, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 2TT
Received 3 Oct 2022Howdens, Unit 2-4, Locksbrook Trading Estate, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3DZ
Received 3 Oct 20222 Belgrave Road, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6LU
Received 3 Oct 202297 Newbridge Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3HG
Received 3 Oct 2022Parcel 5252, Stockwood Vale, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 3 Oct 202214 Portland Place, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2RY
Received 3 Oct 2022Cam Valley Sports Club, 20 Bristol Road, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7NX
Received 3 Oct 202222 Queens Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2NH
Received 30 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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