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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71,497 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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: 10 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
4 St Christopher's Close, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RG
Received 7 May 2025Old Station Farmhouse , 47 Station Road, Welton, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2BJ
Received 8 May 2025King Edwards School, North Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6HU
Received 8 May 202529 Elm Grove, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7BA
Received 8 May 2025Jubilee Centre, Lower Bristol Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9ES
Received 8 May 2025Willow Court , High Street, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6SY
Received 8 May 2025Sunbeam Cottage , 3 High Street, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HT
Received 8 May 2025168 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AT
Received 9 May 20251 Kelston View, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1NW
Received 9 May 2025Widcombe Lodge , Church Street, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AZ
Received 9 May 2025Belushi Bar, St Christopher's Inn, 9 Green Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2JY
Received 9 May 2025Yew Tree Villa , Perrymead, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AX
Received 9 May 202534 Eastbourne Avenue, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6EN
Received 9 May 2025Parcel 8364, Church Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 9 May 20258 Bradford Park, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5PR
Received 9 May 2025Land Between Wellow Brook And Norton Radstock Greenway, Northmead Road, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 9 May 20254 St Mary's Buildings, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AT
Received 9 May 202515 North Road, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2QB
Received 9 May 2025226 Haycombe Drive, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1PR
Received 9 May 2025Trossachs Lodge , Trossachs Drive, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RP
Received 9 May 202517 Cleeve Green, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1SD
Received 9 May 2025Dutch House , College Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RY
Received 12 May 2025Hill House, 25 Belvedere, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5ED
Received 12 May 202510 Downside Close, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6XF
Received 12 May 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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