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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71,479 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
3 Byfield Place, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JB
Received 26 Jun 20268 Lytes Cary Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1XD
Received 26 Jun 2026639 Wellsway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2TY
Received 26 Jun 2026Land Parcel 7200, Bath Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 26 Jun 2026Mendip View , Denny Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SY
Received 29 Jun 2026Grosvenor Villa , Grosvenor Bridge Road, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BB
Received 29 Jun 20268 Prior Park Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NP
Received 29 Jun 20261 Fersfield, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AR
Received 29 Jun 202634 Fosseway South, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4AN
Received 29 Jun 2026Parcel 7400, Low Veale Lane, Stowey, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 29 Jun 2026Bath Fire Station, Bathwick Street, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 6PU
Received 29 Jun 2026University Of Bath , University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7AY
Received 29 Jun 2026Walnut House, Midford Lane, Limpley Stoke, Wiltshire, BA2 7GP
Received 26 Jun 2026The Tithe Barn , Sandy Lane, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4EL
Received 29 Jun 2026Tilly Barn , The Street, West Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6EB
Received 29 Jun 20269 Waterside Road, Westfield, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3YE
Received 29 Jun 2026Radford Hill Cottage, Radford Hill, Radford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2XU
Received 29 Jun 202611 George Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BP
Received 29 Jun 202668 Northend, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7ES
Received 29 Jun 2026The Industrial Quarter , 16 Foxcote Avenue, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8SF
Received 29 Jun 2026Orchard Corner , Hatfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2BD
Received 29 Jun 20266 Cambridge Place , Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AB
Received 29 Jun 2026Browlands , Shepherds Walk, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5QU
Received 29 Jun 202611 Haydon Hill, Haydon, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3QX
Received 30 Jun 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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