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71,496 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
Telephone Exchange, Pennyquick, Newton St Loe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 16 Jan 2025Circus Orthodontic Surgery, 20 The Circus, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2EU
Received 16 Jan 2025Howgrove Farm , Howgrove Hill Lane, Nempnett Thrubwell, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 7UY
Received 16 Jan 2025180 Coronation Avenue, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2JS
Received 16 Jan 2025Jubilee Centre , Lower Bristol Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9ES
Received 16 Jan 202593A Sydney Mews, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4ED
Received 16 Jan 2025Larkspur Rise House , 22 Innox Grove, Englishcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9DX
Received 16 Jan 2025Farfields , Pipehouse, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7UJ
Received 17 Jan 202570 Newbridge Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3LA
Received 17 Jan 2025Church Farm, Church Lane, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6BD
Received 17 Jan 2025Glenavon House , 333 Bath Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3TJ
Received 17 Jan 2025Orchard End , Church Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8TU
Received 17 Jan 2025The Studio, 19 Caroline Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4JH
Received 17 Jan 2025Kingsmead Court, Kingsmead North, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 17 Jan 2025Flat 4 Second Floor, 15 Norfolk Crescent, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BE
Received 17 Jan 2025Cedar Park Care Centre, 27 - 28 Oldfield Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3NG
Received 17 Jan 2025School House , School Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8UY
Received 17 Jan 2025Midway , Church Lane, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5XA
Received 17 Jan 2025The Power House , Access Road To Brockham End, Charlcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9BY
Received 17 Jan 2025210 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AX
Received 17 Jan 20254 Sussex Place, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LA
Received 17 Jan 202535 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DN
Received 17 Jan 20253 Widcombe Crescent, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AH
Received 17 Jan 2025Fernside , Deadmill Lane, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8DE
Received 17 Jan 2025Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsArea alerts send a daily or weekly email with new applications and decisions near a postcode, filtered by project type. £29 a month, up to 3 areas. Records are limited to the councils we collect.
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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage