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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
Hillylands , Weston Lane, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AA
Received 20 Jun 20255 Sladebrook Avenue, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2LA
Received 20 Jun 2025Site Of Old Quarry, Bath Road, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Jun 2025Chew Valley Fruit Farm , Bonhill Road, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5TS
Received 23 Jun 2025152 Bradford Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5BZ
Received 23 Jun 202511 Bloomfield Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AB
Received 23 Jun 2025125 Purlewent Drive, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4BE
Received 23 Jun 2025138 London Road West, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7DD
Received 23 Jun 2025Winfarthing , Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AE
Received 23 Jun 202515 Newbridge Hill, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PW
Received 23 Jun 2025Land South Of Perfect View, Footpaths Along Rivers Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Jun 202524 Millmead Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3JW
Received 23 Jun 2025Ring Of Bells , The Street, Compton Martin, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6JE
Received 23 Jun 20251 Audley Close, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XW
Received 23 Jun 20259 Plumptre Road, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7RD
Received 23 Jun 2025Byfields , Wells Road, Westfield, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3US
Received 23 Jun 20259 Tennyson Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3BG
Received 23 Jun 202545 King Edward Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3PB
Received 23 Jun 20255 Upper Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3JX
Received 23 Jun 2025Planning Applications Outside BANES, Planning, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Jun 2025Cedar Park Care Centre, 27 - 28 Oldfield Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3NG
Received 23 Jun 2025Minerva Bath Rowing Club, Newbridge Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Jun 2025St Michael's Doctors Surgery , Walwyn Close, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1ER
Received 23 Jun 20256 Faulkland Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3LS
Received 23 Jun 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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