Understanding planning · 13 min read
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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Field Farm Cottages , Bristol Road, Farrington Gurney, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6TH
Received 13 Aug 2025Gordel, White Cross Farm, Bristol Road, Farrington Gurney, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6TJ
Received 13 Aug 2025Flat 1, 8 Bathwick Street, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 6NX
Received 13 Aug 202522 Grange Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3AG
Received 13 Aug 202517 Ferndale Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6TD
Received 13 Aug 2025Street Record, Gloucester Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Aug 2025Street Record, Swainswick Gardens, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Aug 202520 St James's Park, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2ST
Received 13 Aug 2025Stowey Mead Cottage , The Street, Stowey, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5TH
Received 13 Aug 2025The Bath Clinic , Claverton Down Road, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7BR
Received 13 Aug 2025King Edwards School, North Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HU
Received 13 Aug 2025Assembly Rooms , Bennett Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QH
Received 13 Aug 2025171 Redland Park, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1SQ
Received 13 Aug 202518 Tennyson Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BG
Received 13 Aug 2025Plymouth House, Monmouth Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 13 Aug 2025Clevelands , Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TD
Received 13 Aug 2025Upper Shockerwick Farm , Shockerwick Lane, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7LH
Received 13 Aug 2025108 Englishcombe Lane, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EJ
Received 14 Aug 202539 Lucius Avenue, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2GZ
Received 13 Aug 2025Wyndles, Entry Hill Drive, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NL
Received 11 Aug 2025Proposed Employment Unit 2, Bell Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 Aug 2025Radford Hill Cottage , Radford Hill, Radford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2XU
Received 14 Aug 202527 Bellotts Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3RT
Received 14 Aug 20256 Dover Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6DX
Received 14 Aug 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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