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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
53,571 approved · 6,583 refused · 4,933 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 31 Dec 2004 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 31 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Stone Walls , Beechwood Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JS
Received 5 Aug 20229A Sion Hill, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UH
Received 5 Aug 20229A Sion Hill, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UH
Received 5 Aug 202236 Edward Street, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BR
Received 8 Aug 202218 Lansdown Park, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TG
Received 7 Aug 202244 Gainsborough Gardens, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AJ
Received 7 Aug 202221 Broadmoor Park, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4JW
Received 8 Aug 2022Cedarwood House , 2 Hermitage Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SN
Received 8 Aug 202241 Brookfield Park, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4JH
Received 8 Aug 2022250 Englishcombe Lane, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2ES
Received 8 Aug 20225 Dowding Road, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6QJ
Received 8 Aug 2022Southcote , Belgrave Road, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6LU
Received 8 Aug 2022Pennard Court , Watery Lane, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1RH
Received 8 Aug 2022West End House , High Street, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QD
Received 8 Aug 2022151 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JN
Received 8 Aug 2022Holly Lodge , Mells Lane, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 5SQ
Received 8 Aug 202247 Bailbrook Lane, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AL
Received 8 Aug 2022Tor Craig , Fosse Lane, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2UZ
Received 8 Aug 202259 Lorne Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3BZ
Received 8 Aug 202219 Heritage Close, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8TJ
Received 8 Aug 2022Land West Of Providence Bungalow, Frome Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 8 Aug 2022Bath Quays North Development Site, Avon Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 8 Aug 2022The Cottage , Middle Street, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6AZ
Received 8 Aug 202223 Chilton Road, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6DR
Received 8 Aug 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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