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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71,476 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
42 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PH
Received 12 Oct 202642 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PH
Received 12 Oct 202622 Audley Grove, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BT
Received 12 Oct 2026Bath Recycling Centre, Locksbrook Road, Newbridge, Bath, BA1 3FE
Received 12 Oct 2026Fairlawn , Weston Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XX
Received 12 Oct 202698 Wells Road, Lyncombe, Bath, BA2 3AR
Received 12 Oct 202641 Hungerford Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BX
Received 12 Oct 202660 Sydney Buildings, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6DB
Received 12 Oct 202635 Upper Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3LB
Received 12 Oct 202627 The Circus, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2EU
Received 12 Oct 202626 The Circus, City Centre, Bath, BA1 2EU
Received 12 Oct 202661 Cranwells Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2YE
Received 12 Oct 20269 Uplands Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3JQ
Received 12 Oct 2026Lower Basement Flat, 1 The Paragon, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5LX
Received 12 Oct 202665 Beckhampton Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3LN
Received 12 Oct 202616 Old Orchard Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1JU
Received 12 Oct 202616 Old Orchard Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1JU
Received 12 Oct 2026The Salvation Army , Green Park Road, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1XE
Received 12 Oct 2026Parkhouse Farm, Parkhouse Lane, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2SG
Received 12 Oct 20265 St Mary's Close, Timsbury, Bath, BA2 0HX
Received 12 Oct 20268 Percy Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AR
Received 12 Oct 202613 Raby Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EH
Received 2 Oct 20266 Williamstowe, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5EJ
Received 12 Oct 2026Lansdown Close , College Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RR
Received 12 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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