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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
71,504 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Jun 1995 to 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 9 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Between 16 And Bypass, London Road West, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 11 Apr 2024Parcel 3700, Silver Street, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 12 Apr 2024Avondale Garage , High Street, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7DW
Received 12 Apr 202474 Priory Close, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AP
Received 12 Apr 202410 Cambridge Terrace, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BE
Received 12 Apr 202410 Cambridge Terrace, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BE
Received 12 Apr 202422 Macaulay Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AT
Received 12 Apr 2024Monarchs Way House, Chewton Road, Chewton Keynsham, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2SS
Received 12 Apr 2024Westoe, Gloucester Road, Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8BH
Received 12 Apr 2024Alice House, The Elms, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7BP
Received 12 Apr 20243 The Elms, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7BP
Received 12 Apr 202414 Kenilworth Close, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2PB
Received 12 Apr 2024Glengarif , Weston Lane, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AA
Received 12 Apr 2024King Edwards School , North Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HU
Received 12 Apr 2024Greenways , Wells Road, Hallatrow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6EN
Received 12 Apr 2024Dick Lovett (bath) Ltd, Wellsway Garage, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DR
Received 12 Apr 202411 New Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BE
Received 12 Apr 2024Parcel 3700, Silver Street, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 12 Apr 2024Brook Lodge , 199 London Road East, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7NB
Received 12 Apr 2024Brook Lodge , 199 London Road East, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7NB
Received 12 Apr 202437 Gaston Avenue, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1LR
Received 12 Apr 2024Garage Block North Of 33, Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 12 Apr 202433 Sydney Buildings, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DB
Received 15 Apr 20241 Haviland Grove, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4JP
Received 15 Apr 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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