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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
71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
84 Greenway Lane, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LN
Received 2 Apr 20253 Lower East Hayes, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AN
Received 2 Apr 2025Bonnie Banks , Ralph Allen Drive, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AE
Received 2 Apr 2025133 The Oval, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2HF
Received 1 Apr 2025High Hopes , Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TJ
Received 2 Apr 2025Woodside House , Staples Hill, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7WJ
Received 2 Apr 2025Circus Orthodontic Surgery, 20 The Circus, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2EU
Received 2 Apr 2025High Hopes , Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TJ
Received 2 Apr 20254 Cambridge Place , Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AB
Received 3 Apr 2025Little Woodlands , North Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HB
Received 3 Apr 202524 Julius Place, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 3 Apr 202513 Yomede Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3LS
Received 3 Apr 2025First Floor, 65 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DN
Received 3 Apr 2025Chesterfield House , 11 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BR
Received 3 Apr 202515 Prior Park Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NP
Received 3 Apr 202515 Prior Park Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NP
Received 3 Apr 202517 Grove Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PJ
Received 3 Apr 2025Slim Chickens, 8 Brunel Square, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SX
Received 3 Apr 2025Slim Chickens, 8 Brunel Square, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SX
Received 3 Apr 20256 Holcombe Grove, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2EZ
Received 4 Apr 202540 Gladstone Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5HL
Received 4 Apr 202526 Lambourn Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1PR
Received 4 Apr 2025156 North Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DL
Received 4 Apr 2025Land North Of Blacklands, Norton Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 4 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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