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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
71,504 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Jun 1995 to 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 9 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Flat 1, 47 Combe Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3NS
Received 10 May 2024Unit C, Weston Lock Retail Park, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1EP
Received 10 May 20245 Princes Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2ED
Received 10 May 2024Rainbow Wood House , Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AX
Received 10 May 202414 Morris Lane, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7PP
Received 10 May 20245 Church Street, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AZ
Received 10 May 2024Bathampton Manor, Mill Lane, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6TS
Received 9 May 2024University Of Bath , University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7AY
Received 13 May 202441 Priory Close, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AN
Received 13 May 2024Belmont Cottages, Bath Road, Tunley, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0DT
Received 13 May 2024Belmont Cottages, Bath Road, Tunley, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0DT
Received 8 May 202415 Woodview, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7XQ
Received 8 May 202471 Paulton Road, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2QX
Received 8 May 20242 Salisbury View, Salisbury Road, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7RL
Received 9 May 2024Planning Applications Outside BANES, Planning, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 9 May 20242 - 3 Queen Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1HE
Received 10 May 20241 Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BJ
Received 13 May 2024The Cottage , Shockerwick Farm Lane, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7LL
Received 13 May 2024Flat 41, Bridge House, Grosvenor Bridge Road, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BH
Received 13 May 202419 Manor Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3RJ
Received 13 May 2024Morrisons , 11 Southgate Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1AQ
Received 13 May 2024Welton Baptist Church, West Road, Welton, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2TP
Received 10 May 2024Rohannon Farm , Weston Farm Lane, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4EY
Received 14 May 2024108 Palladian , Victoria Bridge Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3FL
Received 14 May 2024Records 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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