Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
71,497 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Lime Tree Lodge And Laggan House, College Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 1 Jan 2025Garden Flat, 6 Marlborough Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2TX
Received 1 Jan 2025Parcel 2200, Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 1 Jan 202514 Daneacre Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3JS
Received 2 Jan 202517 Prospect Place, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4EU
Received 2 Jan 2025The Ridge, Colliers Lane, Charlcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8DP
Received 6 Jan 202511A Grosvenor Villas , Claremont Road, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6QL
Received 2 Jan 202528 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DG
Received 2 Jan 2025Cam Bridge Barn , Temple Bridge, Temple Cloud, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5AA
Received 2 Jan 202514 Coronation Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BH
Received 3 Jan 2025Dick Lovett (bath) Ltd, Wellsway Garage, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DR
Received 3 Jan 2025Street Record, Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 2 Jan 202590 Langdon Road, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1LT
Received 3 Jan 2025Willow Farm Mobile Home, Flatts Lane, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HJ
Received 3 Jan 2025Former Bath Press Premises, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 18 Dec 2024Land At Rear Of 59-77, Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 3 Jan 202521 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AD
Received 3 Jan 202532 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DG
Received 3 Jan 202537 Hillcrest, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4AT
Received 6 Jan 2025Park Cottage , St John's Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PR
Received 6 Jan 202527 Shelley Road, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4RJ
Received 6 Jan 20253 Park View, Upper Bristol Road, Lower Weston, Bath, BA1 3AW
Received 6 Jan 202581 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PN
Received 6 Jan 2025Hinton Farm , 5 High Street, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7SW
Received 6 Jan 2025Records 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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