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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
53,343 approved · 6,519 refused · 4,915 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Bird, 18 - 19 Pulteney Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EZ
Received 28 Jul 2022Combe Royal , Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6EQ
Received 28 Jul 20224 Edgar Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2EE
Received 28 Jul 20228 Melcombe Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3LR
Received 28 Jul 2022Court Mead , Langridge Lane, Langridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8AJ
Received 28 Jul 20221 Margaret's Hill, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 28 Jul 2022Court Mead , Langridge Lane, Langridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8AJ
Received 29 Jul 2022Ground Floor Offices, 2 - 4 Henry Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1JT
Received 29 Jul 2022First Floor, 13A John Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2JL
Received 29 Jul 20222 Vale View, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3QD
Received 29 Jul 2022Dick Lovett (bath) Ltd, Wellsway Garage, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DR
Received 29 Jul 20224 Wood Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2JQ
Received 29 Jul 20224 Wood Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2JQ
Received 29 Jul 202211 Bath Old Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3HD
Received 29 Jul 202279 The Hollow, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1NE
Received 29 Jul 202229 Walcot Buildings, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 29 Jul 20221 Fersfield, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AR
Received 28 Jul 202236 Kelston View, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1NP
Received 29 Jul 2022The Wharf , Greensbrook, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5PG
Received 29 Jul 2022North Range, Walcot Yard, Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 29 Jul 2022Greenlane Farm, Common Lane, Compton Dando, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4JU
Received 1 Aug 2022Red Rag Gallery, 24 Brock Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LN
Received 1 Aug 2022Prior Park Garden Centre , Prior Park Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NF
Received 31 Jul 2022Prior Park Garden Centre , Prior Park Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NF
Received 31 Jul 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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