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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
71,453 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Jun 1995 to 12 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
34 Redfield Road, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, BA3 2JW
Received 11 Aug 1997St Johns CEVA Primary School, Redfield Road, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, BA3 2JN
Received 11 Aug 199713 Welton Grove, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, BA3 2TS
Received 11 Aug 1997King Edwards School Playing Field, Dark Lane, Bathampton, Bath, BA2 6SZ
Received 11 Aug 199720 Northend, Batheaston, Bath, BA1 7EN
Received 8 Aug 1997124 Bath Road, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 1SS
Received 12 Aug 1997Norton Service Station, 2 Redfield Road, Midsomer Norton, BA3 2JL
Received 12 Aug 1997Garden House, Church Lane, Batheaston, Bath, BA1 7EF
Received 8 Aug 199770 Rogers Close, Clutton, Bristol, BS39 5RX
Received 13 Aug 1997East Harptree Cp School, Church Lane, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6BD
Received 13 Aug 1997Fortnight Farm, Combe Hay, Bath, BA2 8RE
Received 6 Aug 1997Midsomer Norton South Station(The Old Station), Silver Street, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, BA3 2EY
Received 13 Aug 1997Leamon Farm House, Main Street, Compton Martin, Bristol, BS40 6JF
Received 12 Aug 1997Fairseat Farm, Stoke Hill, Chew Stoke, Bristol
Received 14 Aug 1997Waitrose, Broadmead Lane, Keynsham, BS31 1ST
Received 14 Aug 1997Church Farm, Dunkerton, Bath, BA2 8BJ
Received 14 Aug 1997The Old Granary Avon Valley Farm, Pixash Lane, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 1TS
Received 14 Aug 199722 High Street, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7QF
Received 15 Aug 1997Elm Farm, Butham Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8RQ
Received 18 Aug 1997Telephone Exchange, Temple Inn Lane, Temple Cloud, Bristol, BS39 5DB
Received 18 Aug 1997Whitehall Garden Centre, Norton Lane, Whitchurch, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0BT
Received 18 Aug 1997Hunstrete House Hotel, Hunstrete, Pensford, Bristol, BS39 4NS
Received 18 Aug 1997Greenbank Cottage, 5 The Street, West Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6EB
Received 18 Aug 1997Ferndale, Park Road, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7NG
Received 19 Aug 1997Records 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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