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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
71,497 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
17 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Apr 202567 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DL
Received 23 Apr 202570 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DL
Received 23 Apr 2025Basement, 25 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BU
Received 23 Apr 2025Orchard Cottages , Queen Charlton Lane, Queen Charlton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2SQ
Received 23 Apr 2025The Cottage , The Street, Stowey, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5TH
Received 23 Apr 202518A Queen Square, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2HN
Received 23 Apr 202523 Seymour Road, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6DY
Received 23 Apr 2025Church Farm Barn, Washing Pound Lane, Whitchurch, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Apr 2025Manor Farm , The Street, Stowey, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5TH
Received 23 Apr 2025Trossachs Lodge , Trossachs Drive, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RP
Received 23 Apr 2025Trossachs Lodge , Trossachs Drive, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RP
Received 23 Apr 2025Russell House , Packhorse Lane, South Stoke, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7DW
Received 23 Apr 2025Clan House, Sydney Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 24 Apr 202512 Berkeley Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JH
Received 23 Apr 2025Former Gasworks, Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 24 Apr 20255 Abbey Green, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1NW
Received 24 Apr 2025Chew Lodge , Tunbridge Road, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SX
Received 24 Apr 202527 New King Street, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BL
Received 24 Apr 202527 New King Street, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BL
Received 24 Apr 20257 Barton Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2JR
Received 24 Apr 2025Dental Surgery, 143 Wellsway, Keynsham, BS31 1JA
Received 24 Apr 2025Dick Lovett (bath) Ltd, Wellsway Garage, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DR
Received 24 Apr 202514 Manor Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3DL
Received 24 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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