Understanding planning · 13 min read
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71,448 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
Wellow Lane Roundabout, Peasedown St John By-Pass, Peasedown St. John, Bath,
Received 22 Oct 1998Whitehall Garden Centre, Norton Lane, Whitchurch, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0BT
Received 23 Oct 199815 Scobell Rise, High Littleton, Bristol, BS39 6JY
Received 26 Oct 1998Hillcrest, Limeburn Hill, Chew Magna, Bristol, BS40 8QP
Received 26 Oct 1998St. Raphael, Norton Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, BS40 8RX
Received 26 Oct 1998Larkspur, Station Approach, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4AE
Received 26 Oct 199811 High Meadows, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, BA3 2RY
Received 27 Oct 1998The Old Manse, Upper Bristol Road, Clutton, Bristol
Received 27 Oct 199828 Haydon Gate, Haydon, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3RB
Received 27 Oct 1998Street Record, Walley Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset
Received 27 Oct 1998Hogwood Lodge, Bath Road, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7SE
Received 27 Oct 1998Southlea, The Street, Bishop Sutton, BS39 5UZ
Received 28 Oct 199852 Sunnymead, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, BA3 2SD
Received 28 Oct 19981 Squire Lane, Ubley, Bristol, BS40 6PP
Received 29 Oct 1998Marksbury C Of E Vc Primary School, 9 The Street, Marksbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9HS
Received 30 Oct 19984 Homemead, Corston Lane, Corston, BA2 9AE
Received 28 Oct 1998Ashgrove Motors Car Sales, Anglesea House, New Road, Farmborough, Bath,
Received 30 Oct 1998Lady Farm, Chelwood, Bristol, BS39 4NN
Received 2 Nov 1998Parsonage Barn, Packhorse Lane, South Stoke, Bath, BA2 7DL
Received 2 Nov 1998Nor West Bowling Club, Fosseway, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, BA3 4AY
Received 2 Nov 1998Stock Shelter, Freshford Lane, Freshford, BA2 7UR
Received 2 Nov 1998Land Adjacent To Lavender Cottage, Sutton Hill Road, Bishop Sutton, Bristol,
Received 2 Nov 199815 Parkfield Gardens, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, BS39 5XF
Received 2 Nov 19984 St Mary's Rise, Writhlington, Radstock, BA3 3PD
Received 3 Nov 1998Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsArea alerts send a daily or weekly email with new applications and decisions near a postcode, filtered by project type. £29 a month, up to 3 areas. Records are limited to the councils we collect.
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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage