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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
71,442 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Jun 1995 to 12 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
41 Priory Close, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, BA3 2HZ
Received 23 Jul 1999Lower Fields, Manor Road, Saltford, Bristol, BS31 3AE
Received 22 Jul 1999Blanco, Bristol Road, West Harptree, Bristol, BS40 6HH
Received 23 Jul 199912 Orwell Drive, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 1QB
Received 22 Jul 19993 Sunnymead, Keynsham, BS31 1JD
Received 22 Jul 1999Land Between 121A And 120C, Charlton Park, Midsomer Norton, BA3 4BP
Received 23 Jul 1999St John The Baptist Church, High Street, Keynsham, BS31 1DP
Received 23 Jul 1999Mobile Home @, Little Dale, Mill Lane, Monkton Combe, Bath, BA2 7HD
Received 23 Jul 1999Woodborough Mill Barn, Woodborough Mill Lane, Woollard, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4JT
Received 26 Jul 19994 Springfield Heights, Radstock, BA3 3BD
Received 26 Jul 19991, Manor Yard, Stowey, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, BS39 4TH
Received 26 Jul 19999 Medway Drive, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 1RZ
Received 27 Jul 199944 Bath Hill, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 1HG
Received 26 Jul 1999Haydon Farm House, 9 Haydon Hill, Radstock, BA3 3QX
Received 27 Jul 1999Welton Rovers FC, West Clewes, North Road, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, BA3 2QD
Received 28 Jul 19996 Park Road, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 1BS
Received 28 Jul 199918A Carlingcott, Carlingcott, BA2 8AN
Received 28 Jul 19991 - 3 Hill Court, Paulton, BS39 7QG
Received 29 Jul 19996 Maesbury Road, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 1JR
Received 29 Jul 19996 Box Road, Bathford, Bath, BA1 7RN
Received 29 Jul 1999Parcel 6900, Meadow Lane, Bathampton, Bath, BA2 6SN
Received 29 Jul 199947 Wellow Tyning, Peasedown St John, Bath, BA2 8LJ
Received 30 Jul 199962 Bristol Road, Whitchurch, Bristol, BS14 0PY
Received 2 Aug 1999Black Lion Public House, 42 Bristol Road, Whitchurch, Bristol, BS14 0PT
Received 2 Aug 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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