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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
53,681 approved · 6,611 refused · 4,939 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 Dec 2003 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Coley Cottage, Coley Road, Coley, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6AN
Received 8 Aug 2022Chivers House , Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DT
Received 10 Aug 2022The Mardons Building, Nightingale Way, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4NL
Received 9 Aug 20221 - 4 Daniel Mews, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NG
Received 10 Aug 2022Cowleas House, Sion Hill, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UL
Received 8 Aug 20221 Uplands Farm Barns, Wellsway, Keynsham, BS31 2SZ
Received 10 Aug 20221 Uplands Farm Barns, Wellsway, Keynsham, BS31 2SZ
Received 10 Aug 2022The Barley , 32 Bathwick Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NZ
Received 10 Aug 2022Agricultural Buildings And Land, Blackrock Lane, Publow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 10 Aug 2022Iona , Entry Hill Drive, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NJ
Received 10 Aug 2022Flat 1 Basement, 63 Upper Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3LB
Received 11 Aug 20227 Park Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 11 Aug 2022Former Gasworks, Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 11 Aug 202299 Sydney Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NE
Received 11 Aug 202287 Cedric Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PE
Received 11 Aug 202222 Tyning Terrace , Fairfield Road, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6ET
Received 11 Aug 2022The Wharf , Greensbrook, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5PG
Received 11 Aug 2022276 High Street, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RA
Received 11 Aug 2022Broadview, 83 - 84 Gloucester Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AU
Received 11 Aug 2022Broadview, 83 - 84 Gloucester Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AU
Received 11 Aug 2022Parcel 7048, Marsh Lane, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 12 Aug 202224 Park Avenue, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QD
Received 12 Aug 202236 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BZ
Received 12 Aug 2022Willows , Perrymead, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AY
Received 12 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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