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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Royal United Hospital Central Wing, Royal United Hospital, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3NG
Received 18 Nov 2025Basement Rear, 14 Royal Crescent, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LR
Received 18 Nov 2025Parkwood , 30 St James's Park, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2SU
Received 19 Nov 2025Forefields , Beechwood Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JS
Received 19 Nov 2025Flat 2, 35 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DN
Received 19 Nov 202545 Garrick Road, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1QX
Received 19 Nov 2025Stoneleigh Cottage , Church Hill, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7TX
Received 19 Nov 2025Stoneleigh Cottage , Church Hill, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7TX
Received 19 Nov 2025Garage Block At Rear Of 30 To 32 Great Pulteney Street, Henrietta Mews, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 19 Nov 202520 Oldfield Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3NF
Received 19 Nov 2025Smallcombe Farm , Sydney Buildings, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DD
Received 19 Nov 202512 Park Lane, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 19 Nov 202518 Upper Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3JZ
Received 19 Nov 202515 Silver Street, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2ET
Received 19 Nov 202517 Uplands Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3JQ
Received 19 Nov 202542 Clevedon Road, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2ED
Received 20 Nov 202547 Upper Bloomfield Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2RY
Received 20 Nov 2025Hollister, 13 Southgate Place, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1AP
Received 20 Nov 2025188 London Road West, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7DQ
Received 20 Nov 2025Hollister, 13 Southgate Place, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1AP
Received 20 Nov 2025Iford Manor , Iford Lane, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA15 2BA
Received 20 Nov 2025Cranborne , Station Road, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QB
Received 20 Nov 2025Town Mills, Mill Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3PB
Received 20 Nov 202521 Lansdown Park, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TG
Received 20 Nov 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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