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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71,497 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
121 High Street, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4DF
Received 25 Apr 202523 Lynfield Park, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4ER
Received 25 Apr 2025Unit C, Weston Lock Retail Park, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1EP
Received 25 Apr 202541 Cedric Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PD
Received 25 Apr 2025Green Hedges , 5 Grosvenor Bridge Road, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BB
Received 28 Apr 2025Walnut Tree Cottage , Middle Street, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6AZ
Received 28 Apr 2025First Floor Flat 2, 8 Johnstone Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DH
Received 28 Apr 2025First Floor Flat 2, 8 Johnstone Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DH
Received 28 Apr 202558 High Street, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4DB
Received 28 Apr 2025Toron , Weston Lane, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AA
Received 28 Apr 20257 Sion Hill Place, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SJ
Received 28 Apr 20256 Sion Hill Place, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SJ
Received 28 Apr 2025Parcel 7865, Warminster Road, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 Apr 202510 Castle Gardens, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AN
Received 28 Apr 2025Westfield Farm , Limeburn Hill, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8QW
Received 28 Apr 2025295 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2NU
Received 28 Apr 2025Empty Premises, 5 High Street, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 28 Apr 2025Royal United Hospital Central Wing , Royal United Hospital, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3NG
Received 28 Apr 2025Ridgewood , Perrymead, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AX
Received 28 Apr 202514 Norfolk Crescent, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BE
Received 28 Apr 20254 Edgar Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2EE
Received 28 Apr 20259 Edgar Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2EE
Received 28 Apr 202512 Walden Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1QW
Received 29 Apr 2025Land North Of Blacklands, Norton Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 29 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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