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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
71,448 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Jun 1995 to 12 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
22 Church Road, Peasedown St John, Bath, BA2 8AA
Received 13 Jan 1998Amber Drive, Newmans Lane, Timsbury, Bath, BA2 0JA
Received 14 Jan 19981, Chapel Walk, Chapel Avenue, Timsbury, Bath, BA2 0JZ
Received 14 Jan 1998Portals (Bathford) Limited, Bathford Paper Mill, Bathford, Bath, BA1 7QG
Received 15 Jan 1998Coach House (Claverton Manor), Claverton, Bath, BA2 7BB
Received 14 Jan 1998Rosewell Country Home, Church Hill, High Littleton, Bristol, BS39 6HF
Received 15 Jan 199810 Rudgeway Road, Paulton, Bristol, BS39 7RE
Received 16 Jan 199824 Chaucer Road, Bath, BA2 4QX
Received 19 Jan 199838 Wells Road, Radstock, BA3 3RX
Received 16 Jan 1998Drings Of Bath Ltd, Avon Mill Lane, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 2UG
Received 19 Jan 1998Drings Of Bath Ltd, Avon Mill Lane, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 2UG
Received 19 Jan 1998Drings Of Bath Ltd, Avon Mill Lane, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 2UG
Received 19 Jan 199834 Rotcombe Lane, High Littleton, Bristol, BS39 6JP
Received 20 Jan 199836 Rotcombe Lane, High Littleton, Bristol, BS39 6JP
Received 20 Jan 1998Mill Court, The Island, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2HA
Received 19 Jan 1998Coach House (Claverton Manor), Claverton, Bath, BA2 7BB
Received 19 Jan 1998Shortcombe Barn, Ridge Lane, West Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6ES
Received 21 Jan 1998Eastover Farm, Manor Road, Saltford, Bristol, BS31 3AF
Received 21 Jan 1998Lake View Lodge, Breach Hill Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, BS40 8YD
Received 21 Jan 199860 Waterside Way, Radstock, BA3 3YQ
Received 22 Jan 1998Wilmar, 3 Tower View, High Street, Wellow, BA2 8PU
Received 22 Jan 199822 Westview, Paulton, Bristol, BS39 7XJ
Received 22 Jan 1998The Coal Yard, Marsh Lane, Clutton, Bristol, BS39 4ST
Received 19 Jan 19983 Tiledown, Temple Cloud, Bristol, BS39 5DW
Received 22 Jan 1998Records 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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