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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71,497 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sellars Stile , Bengrove, Camerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0PH
Received 15 May 2025Soho Coffee, 12 Union Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 15 May 202526 Lymore Avenue, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1BB
Received 15 May 2025Flat 1, 19 The Paragon, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5LX
Received 15 May 2025Great Hayes Court, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 15 May 20259 Norfolk Buildings, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BP
Received 15 May 2025Cleeve House , Winford Road, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8QQ
Received 15 May 20252 Grange Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3AR
Received 15 May 2025Milford, Entry Hill Drive, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NL
Received 15 May 20251 Entry Hill Gardens, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NR
Received 16 May 20258 Stanley Terrace, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3HT
Received 16 May 2025The Old Post Office, 1 Fosse Way, Clandown, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3BL
Received 13 May 202522 Garstons, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7TE
Received 16 May 202532A Oldfield Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3ND
Received 16 May 2025Land Between Underleaf Way And Bypass, Underleaf Way, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 16 May 2025Santander, 6 Bath Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SA
Received 16 May 202532 Rockliffe Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QW
Received 16 May 20257 Duke Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4AG
Received 16 May 2025Parcel 0006, Bath Hill, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 16 May 2025Flat 1, 8A Abbey Church Yard, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LY
Received 16 May 2025Keynsham Paper Mill, Avon Mill Lane, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2UG
Received 16 May 202511 The Paragon, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5LX
Received 16 May 2025Brook Cottage , Pensford Lane, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4DU
Received 16 May 2025Snook Cottage , The Street, West Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6EA
Received 19 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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