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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
71,445 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bath And Portland Stone, Avon Mill Lane, Keynsham, BS31 2UG
Received 17 Dec 1999Bath And Portland Stone, Avon Mill Lane, Keynsham, BS31 2UG
Received 17 Dec 1999Bath And Portland Stone, Avon Mill Lane, Keynsham, BS31 2UG
Received 17 Dec 1999Bath And Portland Stone, Avon Mill Lane, Keynsham, BS31 2UG
Received 17 Dec 1999Bath And Portland Stone, Avon Mill Lane, Keynsham, BS31 2UG
Received 17 Dec 1999Myrtle Cottage, Wick Road, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, BS39 5XQ
Received 21 Dec 1999Barn, Upper Twinhoe Farmhouse, Upper Twinhoe, Midford, Bath, BA2 8QX
Received 20 Dec 199919 Steam Mills, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2JZ
Received 21 Dec 19991 The Courtyard, West Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6HU
Received 21 Dec 1999East Lodge, Chew Hill, Chew Magna, Bristol, BS40 8SB
Received 22 Dec 1999White Hart, Widcombe Hill, Bath, BA2 6AA
Received 16 Dec 1999Royal United Hospital, Combe Park, Bath, BA1 3NG
Received 8 Dec 199927 Greenacres, Weston, Bath, BA1 4NS
Received 14 Dec 1999Quarry Stonemason, Locksbrook Place, Upper Bristol Road, Lower Weston, Bath, BA1 3DG
Received 9 Dec 19992, The Hollies, Mill Hill, Wellow, Bath, BA2 8QJ
Received 22 Dec 199967 Rush Hill, Bath, BA2 2QT
Received 17 Dec 1999The New Oriel Hall (Formerly Bath Small School), Brookleaze Buildings, Bath, BA1 6RA
Received 17 Dec 1999Motorway Tyres Limited, Lower Bristol Road, Bath, BA2 3BN
Received 16 Dec 19996 Claverton Road, Saltford, Bristol, BS31 3DP
Received 20 Dec 19993 Pierrepont Place, Bath, BA1 1JX
Received 15 Dec 1999White Hart, Widcombe Hill, Bath, BA2 6AA
Received 16 Dec 199913 Henrietta Villas, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LX
Received 21 Dec 199912 Hillside Gardens, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, BS39 5XG
Received 22 Dec 199913 Henrietta Villas, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LX
Received 17 Dec 1999Records 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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