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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
41 Kipling Avenue, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4RB
Received 4 Feb 2025Woodside House , Staples Hill, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7WJ
Received 4 Feb 202512A Elm Grove, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AZ
Received 4 Feb 2025Longacre Farm , West Town Lane, Nempnett Thrubwell, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 7XD
Received 4 Feb 2025Oakleigh House , 19 Upper Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3JX
Received 5 Feb 202570 Wells Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AR
Received 5 Feb 20255 Widcombe Terrace, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AJ
Received 5 Feb 202511 Handel Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1BT
Received 5 Feb 20258 Cranhill Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2YF
Received 5 Feb 2025Montclair , Hanover Street, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6PP
Received 5 Feb 20255 Belgrave Place , Camden Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JL
Received 5 Feb 202531 Bloomfield Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AB
Received 5 Feb 202514 Kempthorne Lane, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DX
Received 5 Feb 2025Alice House, The Elms, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7BP
Received 29 Jan 202533A Combe Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5HY
Received 5 Feb 202510 Avon Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1LJ
Received 5 Feb 20255 Junction Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3NJ
Received 5 Feb 2025Aquila , Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AR
Received 5 Feb 2025Ravenswell Lodge , Access Road To Ravenswell House, Charlcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9BQ
Received 6 Feb 2025Leigh House Trust Health Centre, 1 Wells Road, Westfield, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3RN
Received 5 Feb 20254 Cambridge Terrace, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BE
Received 6 Feb 20254 Cambridge Terrace, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BE
Received 6 Feb 2025Beazer House, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Feb 2025Ground Floor Flat 1, 14 Kensington Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AP
Received 6 Feb 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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