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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
15 Dunsford Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HF
Received 4 Dec 202515 Dunsford Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HF
Received 4 Dec 20255 Bridge Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4AS
Received 4 Dec 2025The Lodge , Combe Hay Lane, Combe Hay, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8RD
Received 4 Dec 2025Rising Sun , Church Street, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4AQ
Received 4 Dec 202519 Cleveland Walk, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JW
Received 4 Dec 2025The Glen , Bristol Road, West Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6HG
Received 4 Dec 2025Lansdown Close , College Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RR
Received 4 Dec 202558 Southlands Drive, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HB
Received 5 Dec 202587 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JJ
Received 5 Dec 2025First Floor Flat, 248 High Street, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RA
Received 5 Dec 202510 Daniel Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NB
Received 5 Dec 202510 Daniel Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NB
Received 5 Dec 2025Flat 5, 14 Norfolk Crescent, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BE
Received 5 Dec 202535 Claude Avenue, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1AG
Received 5 Dec 2025Yew Tree Lodge , 1C Cleveland Walk, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JS
Received 5 Dec 2025Lower Twinhoe Farm, Lower Twinhoe, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QY
Received 3 Dec 202512 Vineyards, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5NA
Received 5 Dec 202554 Stonehouse Lane, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DW
Received 5 Dec 2025100 Northend, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7HA
Received 5 Dec 20253 Leopold Buildings , Upper Hedgemead Road, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5NY
Received 8 Dec 2025Brook Cottage , 3 Westview Orchard, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7TT
Received 8 Dec 2025Flat 1, 103 Sydney Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NE
Received 8 Dec 2025165 Newbridge Hill, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PX
Received 8 Dec 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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