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
71,483 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Jun 1995 to 6 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Former Bath Press Premises, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 24 Mar 2026Flat 1, 19 The Paragon, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5LX
Received 24 Mar 2026Excel Tennis Centre, Royal Victoria Park Pavilion, Royal Avenue, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2NR
Received 24 Mar 2026Briarwood , St Ladoc Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2DR
Received 24 Mar 202628 Lansdown Park, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TG
Received 24 Mar 2026West View , The Chalks, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SN
Received 24 Mar 202614 Rennie Close, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4GZ
Received 24 Mar 202623 Conway Green, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1SD
Received 24 Mar 2026Minerva House , Lower Bristol Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9ER
Received 24 Mar 202647 Warminster Road, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RX
Received 24 Mar 202689 Englishcombe Lane, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EH
Received 25 Mar 202619 Wellington Buildings, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4EP
Received 25 Mar 2026Enterprise Rent A Car , Lower Bristol Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9ES
Received 25 Mar 2026Flat 10, 33 Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BA
Received 25 Mar 202610 Eleanor Close, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1QL
Received 25 Mar 2026The Cottage , Middle Street, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6AZ
Received 25 Mar 2026Bath Scaffolding Limited, The Smallholdings, Claude Avenue, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 Mar 202631 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DG
Received 25 Mar 202678 Mount Road, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1LH
Received 25 Mar 202650 Richmond Place, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5QA
Received 25 Mar 20263 Church Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1NL
Received 25 Mar 2026Evergreen Cottage , North Wick Road, Norton Hawkfield, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS41 8NN
Received 25 Mar 2026Street Record, Jesse Hughes Court, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 Mar 2026Garage Block East Of Lambridge Grange, Jesse Hughes Court, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 Mar 2026Records 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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