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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
68,582 approved · 9,650 refused · 6,251 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 Aug 1997 to 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 7 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Linney , Bristol Road, West Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6HG
Received 2 Feb 2024138 North Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DL
Received 2 Feb 202436 Park Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2TF
Received 2 Feb 2024Shalom, Dragons Hill Close, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1LL
Received 2 Feb 2024Flat 1, 24 Henrietta Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LP
Received 2 Feb 2024Planning Applications Outside BANES, Planning, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 2 Feb 2024Norland Nursery Training College, York Place, London Road, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AE
Received 2 Feb 20244 Badminton Gardens, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XS
Received 2 Feb 202424 The Tyning, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AL
Received 2 Feb 2024Chapel House , Pipehouse, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7UJ
Received 2 Feb 202417 Lambridge Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6RU
Received 2 Feb 2024Keverstone Lodge , Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LB
Received 2 Feb 2024133 The Oval, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2HF
Received 2 Feb 2024Severcombe Farm , Fosseway, Dunkerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8BU
Received 5 Feb 20249 Henrietta Gardens, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LZ
Received 5 Feb 2024Public Open Space, Broadmoor Lane, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 5 Feb 202416 Priory Close, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2HZ
Received 5 Feb 2024Cranwell House , Weston Park East, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UZ
Received 5 Feb 2024Land Between Lime Tree Lodge And Laggan House, College Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 5 Feb 2024Greenbank , Park Gardens, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XP
Received 5 Feb 2024118B Wellsway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4SD
Received 5 Feb 2024Rebecca's Flower Shop, 1 Waterloo Road, Radstock, BA3 3EP
Received 5 Feb 202412 Lansdown Park, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TG
Received 5 Feb 202413 Cleveland Place West, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5DG
Received 5 Feb 2024Records 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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