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
71,496 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
48 St James's Park, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2SX
Received 10 Jan 202545 St James's Park, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2SX
Received 10 Jan 202541 St James's Park, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2SX
Received 10 Jan 202525 Audley Park Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XJ
Received 10 Jan 202525 Audley Park Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XJ
Received 10 Jan 2025108 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JJ
Received 10 Jan 20251 Avondale Court, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3ET
Received 10 Jan 2025Kennetside , Darlington Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NL
Received 10 Jan 20256 Englishcombe Way, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EU
Received 10 Jan 202532 St Kilda's Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3QJ
Received 10 Jan 2025Westover , Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RB
Received 10 Jan 2025Temple Court , The Barton, Corston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9EX
Received 10 Jan 2025Mary Paddock Farm, Greenhouse Lane, Nempnett Thrubwell, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8YL
Received 10 Jan 2025Radford Hill Cottage , Radford Hill, Radford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2XU
Received 13 Jan 202570 Locksbrook Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3ES
Received 13 Jan 20252 Cedric Close, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PQ
Received 13 Jan 20251 Cedric Close, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PQ
Received 13 Jan 202511 Priory Close, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2HZ
Received 13 Jan 202532 Hillside Avenue, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2NA
Received 13 Jan 2025Ground Floor, 96 Sydney Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NE
Received 13 Jan 2025Copper Beech , Stanton Road, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8RS
Received 13 Jan 20251 Ludwells Orchard, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7XW
Received 13 Jan 2025Jolly's, 7 - 14 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DD
Received 13 Jan 2025Oakleigh , Lower Bristol Road, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5QS
Received 13 Jan 2025Records 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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