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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71,469 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Myrtle Cottage, Sharpstone Lane, Freshford, Bath, BA2 7UA
Received 4 Nov 20266 Lansdown Park, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 5TG
Received 4 Nov 2026227 Bailbrook Lane, Lower Swainswick, Bath, BA1 7AA
Received 5 Nov 2026The Old Station, Station Road, Wellow, Bath, BA2 8QB
Received 5 Nov 2026102 Newbridge Hill, Newbridge, Bath, BA1 3QB
Received 6 Nov 2026Land Opposite 24, Edward Street, Lower Weston, Bath,
Received 2 Nov 2026STREET RECORD, Ycl2484, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 29 Jan 2012STREET RECORD, Ycl2484, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 10 Oct 2024STREET RECORD, Ycl2484, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 27 Nov 2017STREET RECORD, Ycl2484, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 8 Mar 2021STREET RECORD, Ycl2484, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 5 Jul 2021STREET RECORD, Ycl2484, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 16 Mar 2022STREET RECORD, Ycl2484, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Feb 2024STREET RECORD, Ycl2484, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 27 Feb 2024STREET RECORD, Ycl2484, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 29 Dec 202439 High Street, Keynsham, BS31 1DS
Received 1 Apr 199639 High Street, Keynsham, BS31 1DS
Received 1 Apr 1996Hinton House, Branch Road, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7SZ
Received 10 Apr 1996North Lodge, Sulis Manor Road, Bath, BA2 2AL
Received 9 Mar 1998Royal National Hospital For Rheumatic Diseases, Upper Borough Walls, Bath, BA1 1RL
Received 25 Sept 199625 The Circus, Bath, BA1 2EU
Received 4 Oct 19966 Beaufort East , Bath, BA1 6QD
Received 27 Sept 199621 Bathwick Hill, Bath, BA2 6EW
Received 3 Jul 1996Weston Bowls Club, Penn Hill Road, Bath, BA1 4EH
Received 30 Sept 1996Records 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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