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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
71,469 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 Chatham Row, City Centre, Bath, BA1 5BS
Received 2 Nov 202638 Flatwoods Road, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AQ
Received 2 Nov 20266 Greenvale Close, Timsbury, Bath, BA2 0HS
Received 2 Nov 2026Land Next To 22, Edward Street, Lower Weston, Bath,
Received 2 Nov 202622 Edward Street, Lower Weston, Bath, BA1 3BP
Received 2 Nov 202614 Kempthorne Lane, Odd Down, Bath, BA2 5DX
Received 2 Nov 2026Parish's House, Hook, Timsbury, Bath, BA2 0ND
Received 2 Nov 2026Parish's House, Hook, Timsbury, Bath, BA2 0ND
Received 2 Nov 202617 Rivers Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 2QA
Received 2 Nov 202617 Rivers Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 2QA
Received 2 Nov 202611 Warminster Road, Bathampton, Bath, BA2 6SH
Received 2 Nov 2026Studio Cottage, Station Road, Freshford, Bath, BA2 7WQ
Received 2 Nov 2026Hayboro Barn, Ham Lane, Farrington Gurney, Bristol, BS39 6TW
Received 2 Nov 2026Communal Car Park, Spencer's Belle Vue, Lansdown, Bath,
Received 3 Nov 2026Combe Down Ce Vc Primary School, Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, BA2 5JQ
Received 3 Nov 2026Land Parcel 0005, Bath Road, Keynsham,
Received 2 Nov 2026Cramer House, The Square, Westmoreland, Bath, BA2 3BH
Received 3 Nov 202651 High Bannerdown, Batheaston, Bath, BA1 7JZ
Received 3 Nov 202611 Warminster Road, Bathampton, Bath, BA2 6SH
Received 3 Nov 202625 Wellsway, Bath, BA2 4RR
Received 3 Nov 2026106 Walcot Street, City Centre, Bath, BA1 5BG
Received 3 Nov 2026The Old School, Englishcombe Road, Englishcombe, Bath, BA2 9DT
Received 3 Nov 2026Foxhill Grove Farm, Perrymead, Lyncombe, Bath, BA2 5BA
Received 4 Nov 20269 St Matthew's Place, Pulteney Road, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 4JJ
Received 4 Nov 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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