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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
71,497 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
39 Warminster Road, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6XJ
Received 7 Mar 2025The Grange , Entry Hill Drive, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NL
Received 7 Mar 2025Parcel 3256, Clutton Hill, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 7 Mar 202531 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BU
Received 7 Mar 202536 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BZ
Received 7 Mar 202549 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DP
Received 7 Mar 2025Goudies Farm , Access To Goudies Farm, Langridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9DE
Received 7 Mar 2025Goudies Farm , Access To Goudies Farm, Langridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9DE
Received 7 Mar 2025Garden Flat, 4 Station Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3DX
Received 7 Mar 2025The Wheel House, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1EY
Received 7 Mar 2025Mill House , Tunbridge Road, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SP
Received 7 Mar 202523 Priory Close, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AL
Received 7 Mar 202514 The Firs, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5ED
Received 7 Mar 20256 Bailbrook Grove, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AP
Received 7 Mar 2025The Hollies , Pensford Hill, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4AA
Received 7 Mar 2025Edgehill Farm , South Widcombe, Hinton Blewett, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6BN
Received 10 Mar 2025Shortwood House , Hook Lane, Hinton Blewett, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4PT
Received 10 Mar 202559 Underleaf Way, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8SR
Received 10 Mar 2025Weston Lawn , Lucklands Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AY
Received 10 Mar 202527 Rockliffe Avenue, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QP
Received 10 Mar 2025Paragon School , Lyncombe Vale, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LT
Received 10 Mar 20257 Duke Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4AG
Received 10 Mar 2025The Grange, Stanton Road, Pensford, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4JJ
Received 10 Mar 20251 Clarendon Villas , Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AG
Received 10 Mar 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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