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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
49 Brookfield Park, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4JH
Received 4 Apr 202547 Brookfield Park, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4JH
Received 4 Apr 2025Former Gasworks, Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 4 Apr 2025Jody Cory, 9 Abbey Church Yard, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LY
Received 4 Apr 202527 St Mark's Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PA
Received 4 Apr 202527 St Mark's Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PA
Received 4 Apr 2025Bloomfield Bowling Club, 98 Wellsway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4SD
Received 4 Apr 20258 Combe Road Close, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JG
Received 4 Apr 2025Site Of Former Farm Building, Bath Road, Kelston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 4 Apr 2025Combe Hill House , Brassknocker Hill, Monkton Combe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7HU
Received 4 Apr 2025142 High Street, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7TN
Received 4 Apr 20257 Barton Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2JR
Received 4 Apr 20252 Cedar Way, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3HN
Received 4 Apr 20251 - 2 Orange Grove, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LP
Received 4 Apr 2025Court Mead , Langridge Lane, Langridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8AJ
Received 4 Apr 2025Lynmount , Lyncombe Vale Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LP
Received 7 Apr 2025Stable Ground Cottage, Stanton Wick Lane, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4BY
Received 7 Apr 2025The Old Mill , Bromley Road, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4HF
Received 7 Apr 20253 - 4 Northumberland Place, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5AR
Received 3 Apr 2025Street Record, Mill Lane, Monkton Combe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 7 Apr 2025Salisbury Conservative Club , Walcot Terrace, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AB
Received 7 Apr 2025Weston Island Bus Depot , Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9ES
Received 7 Apr 202517 Great Stanhope Street, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 7 Apr 2025Stonecroft , Entry Hill Drive, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NL
Received 18 Jun 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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