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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
71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
39 High Bannerdown, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7JZ
Received 9 Jul 2025Jody Cory, 9 Abbey Church Yard, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LY
Received 9 Jul 2025Parade Park Hotel, 8 - 10 North Parade, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 9 Jul 2025Coach House , Tunbridge Road, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8SX
Received 10 Jul 20251 Rose Cottages , The Lower Lane, Combe Hay, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7EQ
Received 10 Jul 20257 Alexander Buildings, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AT
Received 10 Jul 2025Street Record, The Street, Stowey, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 10 Jul 2025Parcel 3938, North Wick Road, Norton Hawkfield, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 10 Jul 2025Flat 3, 7 Abbey Green, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1NW
Received 9 Jul 2025Jolly's, 7 - 14 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DD
Received 10 Jul 20252 Fairfield Terrace, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8HL
Received 10 Jul 2025480 Bath Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3DJ
Received 10 Jul 2025Saltford Primary School, Claverton Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3DW
Received 10 Jul 202515 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DE
Received 10 Jul 202515 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DE
Received 10 Jul 202517 - 18 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DB
Received 10 Jul 2025High Meadow, College Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5RR
Received 10 Jul 202517 - 18 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DB
Received 10 Jul 202516 Southville Terrace, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LZ
Received 10 Jul 2025Former Ministry Of Defence Foxhill Premises, Bradford Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 10 Jul 2025Crowe Hall , Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AR
Received 10 Jul 2025Crowe Hall , Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AR
Received 10 Jul 2025Windyridge , High Street, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QA
Received 10 Jul 202549 Ringwood Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3JL
Received 10 Jul 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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