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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
71,496 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Jun 1995 to 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 10 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
30 Fairfield Park Road, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6JW
Received 16 Apr 2025The Keynsham Courtyard, 19 High Street, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1DP
Received 16 Apr 2025Former Gasworks, Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 16 Apr 2025Former Gasworks, Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 16 Apr 2025Bath Orthodontics, Waterside Court, Sydney Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6NR
Received 16 Apr 2025Parade Park Hotel, 8 - 10 North Parade, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 16 Apr 2025Overdale , 25 Rag Hill, Shoscombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8LS
Received 16 Apr 202576 Purlewent Drive, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4BA
Received 16 Apr 2025Coney Burrow , Charlcombe Way, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6JZ
Received 16 Apr 2025Empty Shop Premises, 24 New Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BA
Received 17 Apr 2025Empty Shop Premises, 24 New Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BA
Received 17 Apr 2025The Royal High School , Lansdown Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SZ
Received 17 Apr 2025Land Adjacent To 1, Church Road, Norton Malreward, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 17 Apr 2025Leigh House Trust Health Centre, 1 Wells Road, Westfield, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3RN
Received 17 Apr 20254 Hensley Gardens, Moorlands, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2DS
Received 17 Apr 2025First Floor Flat, 143 Englishcombe Lane, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EL
Received 17 Apr 2025Mount Pleasant Quarry, Mount Pleasant, Monkton Combe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 17 Apr 202554 Uplands Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3HN
Received 17 Apr 20252 St Keyna Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2UD
Received 17 Apr 202531 Sedgemoor Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5PJ
Received 17 Apr 2025Former Gasworks, Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 17 Apr 20256 Darlington Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EA
Received 17 Apr 202522 Sladebrook Road, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1LR
Received 22 Apr 2025Garage Block North Of 33, Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 22 Apr 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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