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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
71,479 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
Ground Floor, 1 Lansdown Place West, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5EZ
Received 7 Apr 2026Plymouth House, Monmouth Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 7 Apr 20264 Lime Grove, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4HF
Received 7 Apr 202643 Combe Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5HZ
Received 7 Apr 20265 Bailbrook Lane, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AH
Received 7 Apr 20265 Bailbrook Lane, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AH
Received 7 Apr 202618 Upper Borough Walls, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1RJ
Received 7 Apr 2026Parcel 9248, Redlynch Lane, Chewton Keynsham, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 7 Apr 2026Crossways House , Crossways Lane, Dunkerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8BU
Received 8 Apr 2026Crossways House , Crossways Lane, Dunkerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8BU
Received 8 Apr 2026Freedom House , Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1EP
Received 8 Apr 20264 Willow Falls, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7DG
Received 8 Apr 202634 Richmond Place, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5QA
Received 8 Apr 20265 Belvoir Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3PS
Received 8 Apr 2026Garages To South Of 4, Stratton Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 8 Apr 2026Huckleberry , Undertown Lane, Compton Martin, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6ND
Received 8 Apr 2026Upper Vale House, 29 Church Street, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RR
Received 8 Apr 2026Upper Vale House, 29 Church Street, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RR
Received 8 Apr 202615 Dunsford Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HF
Received 8 Apr 202667 Grange Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3AQ
Received 8 Apr 2026Pumping Station, Ham Lane, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 8 Apr 2026Pumping Station, Ham Lane, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 8 Apr 2026The Old Post Office, 1 Fosse Way, Clandown, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3BL
Received 2 Apr 2026Burnett House , Old Burnett Lane, Burnett, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2TF
Received 8 Apr 2026Records 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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