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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71,497 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
17 Henrietta Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LW
Received 13 Mar 202517 Henrietta Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LW
Received 13 Mar 202543 Newbridge Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3HF
Received 13 Mar 202573 Tilley Close, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0AQ
Received 14 Mar 2025Flat 1, 15 Morford Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2RJ
Received 14 Mar 2025Old Boiler House, Swallow Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 Mar 2025The Old Cottage , St Saviour's Road, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6RJ
Received 14 Mar 2025Avon Army Cadet Force , Bath Road, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7NY
Received 14 Mar 2025Sleight Farm , Hayeswood Road, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HN
Received 14 Mar 2025Cross Manufacturing Co Ltd , Midford Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5RR
Received 14 Mar 2025Sleight Farm , Hayeswood Road, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HN
Received 14 Mar 2025197 Bailbrook Lane, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AB
Received 14 Mar 20255 Cranwells Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2YD
Received 14 Mar 2025Flat 1 Maisonette, 20 New King Street, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BL
Received 14 Mar 2025Middle Hill Lodge , Ralph Allen Drive, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AF
Received 14 Mar 202510 Quiet Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2JU
Received 14 Mar 2025Church Farm, Church Lane, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4EW
Received 14 Mar 2025Piccadilly House , Piccadilly Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6PL
Received 14 Mar 2025Piccadilly House , Piccadilly Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6PL
Received 14 Mar 202510 Quiet Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2JU
Received 14 Mar 202510 Quiet Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2JU
Received 14 Mar 202518 New Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BA
Received 14 Mar 202522 Westerleigh Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JE
Received 1 Jan 2025Flat A Ground Floor, 44 Rockliffe Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QW
Received 1 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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