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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
68,478 approved · 9,635 refused · 6,244 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 Aug 1997 to 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 7 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
36 Wellow Mead, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8SB
Received 3 Nov 2023The Scala, Shaftesbury Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3LH
Received 3 Nov 202314 Entry Hill Park, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5ND
Received 1 Nov 2023Sewage Works, Ford Road, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 3 Nov 20231 Bailbrook Lane, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AH
Received 3 Nov 202349 Ringswell Gardens, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BN
Received 3 Nov 202338 Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LD
Received 3 Nov 2023Flat 3, 12 New King Street, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BL
Received 3 Nov 202310 Beaufort Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6RP
Received 3 Nov 202310 Entry Hill Gardens, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NR
Received 6 Nov 2023Brompton House , St John's Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PT
Received 6 Nov 2023Talisman , Sham Castle Lane, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JL
Received 6 Nov 202312 Cadbury Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1JW
Received 6 Nov 20238 Bladud Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5LS
Received 6 Nov 202352 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PJ
Received 6 Nov 2023The Coach House , Church Lane, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6BE
Received 6 Nov 2023Southwest House , Weston Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XU
Received 6 Nov 2023Southwest House , Weston Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XU
Received 6 Nov 202352 Solsbury Way, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6HJ
Received 6 Nov 2023Flat 1, 9 Henrietta Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LL
Received 6 Nov 2023Flat 1, 9 Henrietta Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LL
Received 6 Nov 202328 Dorset Street, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3RA
Received 6 Nov 20239 Somerset Place, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5AD
Received 7 Nov 2023Dunkirk Mill , Rosemary Lane, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7UD
Received 7 Nov 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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