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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
69 Church Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JQ
Received 14 Jul 20252 Lime Grove Gardens, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4HE
Received 14 Jul 2025Waterfront House, 211 Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 14 Jul 2025Flat 1, Whimster Court, High Street, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1EX
Received 14 Jul 2025Dunkirk Mill , Rosemary Lane, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7UD
Received 14 Jul 2025Dunkirk Mill , Rosemary Lane, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7UD
Received 14 Jul 202535 Lippiatt Lane, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0JF
Received 15 Jul 202545 Rock Road, Welton, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2AQ
Received 15 Jul 2025Former Radstock County Infant School, Bath Old Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 15 Jul 2025Empty Shop Premises, 24 New Bond Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1BA
Received 15 Jul 202521 Trinity Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AB
Received 15 Jul 2025Woodside House , Staples Hill, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7WJ
Received 15 Jul 20252 The Avenue, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2BU
Received 11 Jul 20256 Cleveland Place West, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5DG
Received 15 Jul 2025Stone Barn Cottage , Moorledge Lane, Chew Magna, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8TL
Received 15 Jul 2025Grove House West , Weston Park, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AN
Received 15 Jul 2025The Bailbrook Lodge Hotel, 35 - 37 London Road West, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7HZ
Received 15 Jul 20259 Salisbury Road, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6QX
Received 16 Jul 2025Royal United Hospital Central Wing, Royal United Hospital, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3NG
Received 16 Jul 2025146 Englishcombe Lane, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EN
Received 16 Jul 2025The Old Priory Hotel, The Priory, 19 Church Square, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2HX
Received 16 Jul 202533 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BX
Received 16 Jul 2025Portal , Publow Lane, Publow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4HW
Received 16 Jul 2025Richmond House , Weston Park, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AL
Received 16 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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