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
71,478 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
35 King Edward Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3PD
Received 6 Jul 2026Beacon Hill Common, Beacon Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Jul 202673 Underleaf Way, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8SR
Received 6 Jul 2026Main Building, Kingswood School, Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RG
Received 6 Jul 2026Verge Between Priory Close And Church Lane, Priory Close, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Jul 2026Restharrow , Staunton Lane, Whitchurch, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0QG
Received 6 Jul 202614 Woodland Grove, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7AT
Received 6 Jul 202622 Northend, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7EN
Received 6 Jul 202621 St James's Park, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2ST
Received 6 Jul 2026Seafoods Fish Bar, 38 Kingsmead Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2AA
Received 6 Jul 2026Winfield Lodge, Weston Park, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AS
Received 3 Jul 2026Parcel 3587, Skinners Hill, Camerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 30 Jun 202611 Grove Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PJ
Received 6 Jul 202612 Grove Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PJ
Received 6 Jul 202613 Grove Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PJ
Received 6 Jul 202614 Grove Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PJ
Received 6 Jul 20263 Argyle Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BA
Received 3 Jul 2026Plumb Center, Locksbrook Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3EU
Received 6 Jul 202618 Upper Borough Walls, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1RJ
Received 6 Jul 2026Little Court , College Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RR
Received 6 Jul 2026Unit A, Whitaker Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DZ
Received 6 Jul 2026Royal National Hospital For Rheumatic Diseases, Upper Borough Walls, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1RL
Received 7 Jul 202645 Kaynton Mead, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3EQ
Received 7 Jul 20264 Marlborough Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2TX
Received 7 Jul 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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