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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71,504 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Link Hill , Twinhoe Lane, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QU
Received 26 Jul 2024Land To South Of 2, The Orchard, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 26 Jul 2024Land Next To Woodcote, Church Lane, Limpley Stoke, Wiltshire,
Received 26 Jul 2024Trees , The Street, Ubley, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6PA
Received 29 Jul 2024Storage Compound, Little Horse Croft Farm, Ford Road, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 29 Jul 2024Waverley House , 53 Bloomfield Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AE
Received 29 Jul 2024Steps And Bank Next To 21, St Winifred's Drive, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 29 Jul 202429 Shelley Road, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4RJ
Received 29 Jul 202425 Hopton Way, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9AZ
Received 29 Jul 2024Hazelwood House , Warminster Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6SF
Received 29 Jul 202430 Church Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4BT
Received 29 Jul 20247 St John's Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BN
Received 29 Jul 2024Garage Block Behind 80, Newbridge Hill, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 29 Jul 202467 Englishcombe Lane, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EE
Received 29 Jul 20241 Woodlands Park, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7BQ
Received 29 Jul 2024128 Hillside Avenue, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2NA
Received 29 Jul 202427 Cedric Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PD
Received 29 Jul 2024The Beeches , 9 High Street, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8PR
Received 29 Jul 202421 Nightingale Way, Westfield, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4NL
Received 29 Jul 2024Woodlands , 55 Hantone Hill, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6XD
Received 29 Jul 2024Francis Hotel, 6 - 11 Queen Square, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2HH
Received 29 Jul 2024The Boater , 9 Argyle Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BQ
Received 29 Jul 2024Parcel 6117, Meadow Lane, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 29 Jul 2024Humphreston House , The Green, Temple Cloud, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5BW
Received 29 Jul 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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