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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
71,476 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Second Floor, Wessex House, Pixash Lane, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1TP
Received 8 Oct 2026Cambridge Lodge , Hatfield Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AF
Received 8 Oct 2026Former Gasworks, Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 8 Oct 202683 Bloomfield Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AD
Received 8 Oct 20267 Hinton Villas, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7SS
Received 8 Oct 2026Woodridge , Bath Road, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8DL
Received 8 Oct 2026141 Welton Grove, Welton, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2TT
Received 8 Oct 20264 Chatham Row, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BS
Received 8 Oct 202698 Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 5BG
Received 8 Oct 2026Bath Fire Station, Bathwick Street, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 6PU
Received 8 Oct 20269 Down Avenue, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5QH
Received 8 Oct 202619 Somerset Place, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5AD
Received 9 Oct 20261 Cedar Villas , Cedar Walk, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3HW
Received 9 Oct 2026Former Jollys Shop, 7 - 14 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DD
Received 9 Oct 202640 Elm Tree Avenue, Westfield, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3SZ
Received 9 Oct 2026Outbuildings, Lower Twinhoe Farm, Lower Twinhoe, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 1 Oct 20261 Gascoyne Place, Sawclose, Bath, BA1 1EY
Received 9 Oct 20267 Charlcombe Way, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6JZ
Received 9 Oct 2026Westside House, Quarry Rock Gardens, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6EF
Received 8 Oct 2026Street Record, Norwood Avenue, Claverton Down, Bath,
Received 9 Oct 2026The Croft , Sleep Lane, Whitchurch, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0QN
Received 9 Oct 202631 Bathford Hill, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7SW
Received 9 Oct 2026Aquila , Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AR
Received 9 Oct 202653 Rockliffe Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QW
Received 9 Oct 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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