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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
54,267 approved · 6,785 refused · 5,022 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Mount Pleasant Quarry, Mount Pleasant, Monkton Combe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 7 Nov 2022Roslyn, Chilcompton Road, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2NP
Received 7 Nov 202211 Richmond Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TU
Received 7 Nov 2022Sunday House, Scot Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8UW
Received 7 Nov 2022Audley House , Park Gardens, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XP
Received 8 Nov 202211 The Havory, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6RR
Received 8 Nov 202275 Entry Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5LT
Received 8 Nov 2022Ivy Cottage, Rectory Lane, Compton Martin, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6JJ
Received 7 Nov 2022Top Floor, 61 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DN
Received 8 Nov 2022The Hideout, 1 Lilliput Court, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1ND
Received 8 Nov 202255 High Street, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1DD
Received 8 Nov 2022232 The Hollow, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1NG
Received 8 Nov 20221 Lower Batch, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8RP
Received 8 Nov 20229 Midford Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5RW
Received 8 Nov 2022Parcel 3132, Hinton Hill, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 8 Nov 202239 Brooklyn Road, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6TE
Received 8 Nov 202228 Combe Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3NR
Received 9 Nov 202259 St John's Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PZ
Received 9 Nov 2022The Old Rectory , Rectory Lane, Compton Martin, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6JP
Received 9 Nov 2022107 Chandler Close, Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4EQ
Received 9 Nov 2022Siena , Cranwells Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2YE
Received 9 Nov 202216 Clarence Street, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5NS
Received 9 Nov 20229A Richmond Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TU
Received 9 Nov 2022Former Printing Works, Waterloo Road, Radstock, BA3 3EP
Received 9 Nov 2022Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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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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