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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
71,496 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Jun 1995 to 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 10 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Former Ministry Of Defence Foxhill Premises, Bradford Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 11 Apr 2025Flat 1, 103 Sydney Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NE
Received 14 Apr 20256 Darlington Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EA
Received 14 Apr 202515 Macaulay Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AT
Received 14 Apr 202556 Bloomfield Drive, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2BG
Received 14 Apr 2025Radstock Methodist Church , The Street, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3PL
Received 14 Apr 202569 Bloomfield Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AA
Received 14 Apr 2025Town Mills, Mill Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3PB
Received 14 Apr 202546 Shakespeare Avenue, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4RF
Received 14 Apr 2025Oldfield School , Kelston Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9AB
Received 14 Apr 2025New Farm , Marksbury Lane, Priston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9HJ
Received 14 Apr 2025Football Ground, Recreation Ground, Church Road, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8AA
Received 14 Apr 2025Sunnyvere , Tunley Road, Tunley, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0DZ
Received 14 Apr 202517 Sladebrook Avenue, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2LA
Received 14 Apr 2025Maisonette Ground Floor And Basement, 5 Thomas Street, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5NW
Received 14 Apr 20258 Horseshoe Walk, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DE
Received 14 Apr 2025Flat 3, Kingsley, 51 - 53 Upper Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3LB
Received 14 Apr 202556 Stonehouse Lane, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DW
Received 14 Apr 202545 Under Knoll, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8TY
Received 14 Apr 2025The Mount , Main Road, Temple Cloud, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5DQ
Received 14 Apr 202520 Elm Grove, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AZ
Received 14 Apr 20252 Church Square, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5SH
Received 15 Apr 2025St Nicholas Primary School , Kilmersdon Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3QH
Received 15 Apr 202529 Park Avenue, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QD
Received 15 Apr 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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