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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
3 Summerhill Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UP
Received 21 Jul 2025The Hollies , Beechwood Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JS
Received 21 Jul 20257 Summerhill Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UP
Received 21 Jul 2025Lower Shockerwick Farm , Shockerwick Farm Lane, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7LL
Received 21 Jul 2025Premier Inn , 4 James Street West, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BX
Received 21 Jul 2025Braysdown Stables Ltd , Gassons, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8FE
Received 21 Jul 2025127 Newbridge Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3HG
Received 22 Jul 20259 - 10 Pulteney Bridge, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4AY
Received 22 Jul 2025Field Parcel Opposite Town Mills, Mill Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 22 Jul 2025Foxhill Grove Farm , Perrymead, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5BA
Received 22 Jul 2025Longlands House , Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6EX
Received 22 Jul 2025238 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AX
Received 22 Jul 202583 North Road, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2QH
Received 22 Jul 20253 Moorsfield, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5SR
Received 22 Jul 2025Sun Chemicals Limited , Old Pit Road, Westfield, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4RT
Received 22 Jul 2025Onslow House , Weston Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XX
Received 22 Jul 20255 Mount Beacon Row, Richmond Lane, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5QH
Received 18 Jul 20259 Sydney Buildings, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BZ
Received 22 Jul 2025Cranwell House , Weston Park East, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UZ
Received 22 Jul 2025Parcel 2768, Combe Hay Lane, Midford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 22 Jul 2025Woodlands , The Street, Compton Martin, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6JA
Received 22 Jul 2025Jubilee Centre, Lower Bristol Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9ES
Received 22 Jul 2025Sellars Stile , Bengrove, Camerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0PH
Received 23 Jul 2025The Old Wash House , 5A Radstock Road, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2AJ
Received 23 Jul 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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