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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
71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Wharf, Greensbrook, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5PG
Received 25 Nov 20245 Westwoods, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7QE
Received 25 Nov 202420 St James's Square, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 2TS
Received 25 Nov 2024St Mary's Church , Darlington Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EB
Received 25 Nov 2024Kilkenny House , 25 Sion Hill, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UN
Received 26 Nov 20245 Middle Lane, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6LS
Received 26 Nov 2024Memorial Garden, Rectory Lane, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 26 Nov 2024Old Oak House , Watery Lane, Burnett, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2TF
Received 26 Nov 202422 Devonshire Road, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6UB
Received 26 Nov 2024Basement, 28 Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BA
Received 26 Nov 2024Flat 2, 24 New King Street, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BL
Received 26 Nov 202421 Darlington Place, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BX
Received 26 Nov 2024Land To Rear Of Danes Court, Dane's Lane, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 26 Nov 202416 Maximus Gardens, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2GX
Received 30 Jan 2025Clarkson House, 5 Great Stanhope Street, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 30 Jan 202593A Sydney Mews, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4ED
Received 30 Jan 202593A Sydney Mews, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4ED
Received 30 Jan 202531 Sedgemoor Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5PJ
Received 30 Jan 20253 - 4 Northumberland Place, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5AR
Received 30 Jan 2025First Floor Flat, 105 Midford Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5RX
Received 30 Jan 202541 Freeview Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1DS
Received 30 Jan 2025Oozles , Barrow Hill, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HL
Received 30 Jan 20257 Henrietta Villas, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LX
Received 30 Jan 202525 Northampton Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2SW
Received 30 Jan 2025Records 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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