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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
62,930 approved · 8,748 refused · 5,815 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 10 Jan 2000 to 2 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 4 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Lucklands Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AY
Received 24 Jul 20231 Fersfield, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AR
Received 24 Jul 2023High Meadow , Perrymead, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5BA
Received 24 Jul 2023Denewood Grange , 83 London Road West, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7JE
Received 24 Jul 20233 The Elms, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7BP
Received 24 Jul 20235 Powlett Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QQ
Received 24 Jul 2023Merryhill , North Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HD
Received 24 Jul 2023Second Floor, 8 Cleveland Place West, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5DG
Received 24 Jul 2023School Of Management, University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 24 Jul 202387 Newbridge Hill, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PT
Received 24 Jul 2023Sainsbury's Supermarkets Limited, Green Park Station, Green Park Road, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2DR
Received 24 Jul 202356 Newbridge Hill, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PU
Received 24 Jul 20231 Drake Avenue, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NX
Received 24 Jul 2023Brook House, Lower Bristol Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 24 Jul 2023Priory Hotel , Weston Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XT
Received 24 Jul 20238 Trent Grove, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1QD
Received 24 Jul 2023Barton Meade House , 126 Kilmersdon Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3QS
Received 24 Jul 2023Bath Hill House, 31 Bath Hill, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1HQ
Received 25 Jul 202324 Royal Crescent, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LT
Received 25 Jul 2023Ling Heather , The Street, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0AR
Received 25 Jul 202321 Claudius Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2FB
Received 25 Jul 20234 North Parade, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LF
Received 25 Jul 2023Street Record, Water Lane, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 25 Jul 2023Attwood Apartments, 3 Rockery Park, North Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DN
Received 25 Jul 2023Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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