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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
71,500 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Chelscombe Farm , Fonthill Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9BA
Received 20 Mar 2025Be At One Limited , 11 Brunel Square, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SX
Received 21 Mar 2025Be At One Limited , 11 Brunel Square, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SX
Received 21 Mar 20259 St Mary's Close, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BR
Received 21 Mar 2025Flat 4, Chilton Court, Tyning Lane, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6EQ
Received 21 Mar 202537 Stonehouse Lane, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DW
Received 21 Mar 2025Howgrove Farm , Howgrove Hill Lane, Nempnett Thrubwell, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 7UY
Received 21 Mar 20258 Gillingham Terrace, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6LL
Received 21 Mar 2025169 High Street, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7DW
Received 21 Mar 202512 Redwood Close, Westfield, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3EH
Received 21 Mar 20253 Box Road, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7QQ
Received 21 Mar 2025Baroda , The Avenue, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5EQ
Received 21 Mar 2025Chelscombe Farm , Fonthill Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9BA
Received 21 Mar 2025Little Stoke , Claverton Down Road, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DZ
Received 21 Mar 20257 Elm Grove, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2HJ
Received 21 Mar 20251 Raby Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 21 Mar 202596 Old Fosse Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2SR
Received 21 Mar 202562 Coronation Avenue, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2JW
Received 24 Mar 20257 Porlock Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5PG
Received 24 Mar 2025St Bartholemews Church , King Edward Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3PB
Received 24 Mar 2025Lower Roundhill Barn, Kelston Road, Kelston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9AF
Received 24 Mar 20251 Fairways, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 24 Mar 2025170 Bradford Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5BZ
Received 24 Mar 20252 Maesbury Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1JR
Received 24 Mar 2025Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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