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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Parcel 6781 Development Site, Cobblers Way, Westfield, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 2 Jul 2025Street Record, Quebec, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 2 Jul 202518 Woodhouse Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1ST
Received 2 Jul 202541 Rockliffe Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QW
Received 2 Jul 2025Meriden Cottage , Weston Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XZ
Received 2 Jul 2025Communal Building, Ballance Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 2 Jul 2025Phoenix House, Harley Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 2 Jul 2025Rochelle , Tennis Court Road, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7LU
Received 2 Jul 2025Parcel 3470, East Dundry Lane, Norton Hawkfield, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 2 Jul 2025Deep Lock House, St Matthew's Place, Pulteney Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4JJ
Received 2 Jul 2025Jolly's, 7 - 14 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DD
Received 2 Jul 202516 Southville Terrace, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LZ
Received 2 Jul 2025H J Paradise & Co Building Contractors , Crescent Lane, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2PY
Received 2 Jul 2025H J Paradise & Co Building Contractors , Crescent Lane, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2PY
Received 2 Jul 20259 Church Street, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AZ
Received 2 Jul 202561 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DN
Received 3 Jul 202532 Oldfield Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3ND
Received 3 Jul 2025The Lodge Mews , Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6EP
Received 3 Jul 2025Great Barn Court Block Two, Dane's Lane, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 3 Jul 202553 Stonehouse Lane, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DW
Received 3 Jul 202560 Entry Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NA
Received 3 Jul 20259 Cypress Terrace, Westfield, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3TL
Received 3 Jul 202558 Entry Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NA
Received 3 Jul 202555 Third Avenue, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3NZ
Received 3 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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