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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
55,836 approved · 7,222 refused · 5,186 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 Dec 2003 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 1 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7 Greenway Lane, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LJ
Received 27 Oct 202215 Park Street Mews, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2SZ
Received 27 Oct 20224 Worcester Terrace, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6PY
Received 27 Oct 202212 Norfolk Crescent, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BE
Received 27 Oct 2022Basement, 9 Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AX
Received 27 Oct 2022George House , The Square, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QQ
Received 27 Oct 2022Publow Farm , Blackrock Lane, Publow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4HZ
Received 28 Oct 2022Land At Rear Of 49-51 North Road, Farrs Lane, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 28 Oct 2022Garden House , 138 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JL
Received 28 Oct 202226 Poplar Close, Moorlands, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2HY
Received 28 Oct 202229 Richmond Place, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5PZ
Received 28 Oct 202226 Bennett's Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AW
Received 28 Oct 20221 Hamilton Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SB
Received 28 Oct 20228 Henrietta Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LL
Received 28 Oct 202224 Westgate Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1EP
Received 28 Oct 2022Unit 1, Westbury Farm, Tunley Road, Tunley, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 28 Oct 20221 Gascoyne Place , Sawclose, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1EY
Received 28 Oct 20221 Gascoyne Place , Sawclose, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1EY
Received 28 Oct 2022Hsbc, 41 Southgate Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1TN
Received 28 Oct 2022New Farm , Marksbury Lane, Priston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9HJ
Received 31 Oct 2022Overdale , Warminster Road, Monkton Combe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7HY
Received 31 Oct 202222 Oak Street, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3BR
Received 31 Oct 2022Weston Farm , Weston Farm Lane, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4EY
Received 31 Oct 20227 Seymour Road, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6DY
Received 31 Oct 2022Records 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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