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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71,476 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
4 Badminton Gardens, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XS
Received 12 Oct 2026Site Of Food Machinery 2000 Ltd Depot, Comfortable Place, Kingsmead, Bath,
Received 12 Oct 202610A Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BR
Received 13 Oct 202610A Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BR
Received 13 Oct 20268 Claverton Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LD
Received 13 Oct 202642 Newbridge Hill, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PU
Received 13 Oct 202652 Priory Close, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AW
Received 13 Oct 20268 Silver Street, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8RE
Received 13 Oct 2026Street Record, Norwood Avenue, Claverton Down, Bath,
Received 13 Oct 2026Old Court House , Corston Lane, Corston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9AP
Received 13 Oct 2026Papermill Cottage, Leigh Lane, St Catherine, Bath, BA1 8HG
Received 13 Oct 202635 Partis Way, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3QQ
Received 13 Oct 2026Redwood House, 65 Bristol Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 12 Oct 202613 Park Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2TE
Received 13 Oct 20267 St John's Place, City Centre, Bath,
Received 13 Oct 2026Grove House , Wallace Lane, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6BU
Received 13 Oct 2026Kingswood School, Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RG
Received 13 Oct 2026Barton Meade House , 126 Kilmersdon Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3QS
Received 13 Oct 202612 Bladud Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5LS
Received 13 Oct 2026Gilfach , London Road, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BD
Received 13 Oct 2026178 Bailbrook Lane, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AA
Received 14 Oct 2026Second Floor, 9 Lansdown Place West, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5EZ
Received 14 Oct 202622 Macaulay Buildings, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AT
Received 14 Oct 202621 Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6EW
Received 11 Aug 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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