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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
3 Highbury Cottages , Highbury Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6EB
Received 23 Jul 2025Levante, Bloomfield Park, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2BY
Received 23 Jul 2025Hillside Cottage , Hunstrete Lane, Woollard, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4HU
Received 23 Jul 2025Parcel 5425, Rankers Lane, Compton Dando, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Jul 2025Dukes Hotel, 53 - 54 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DN
Received 23 Jul 2025Bath Magistrates Court , North Parade Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5AF
Received 23 Jul 20252 The Paragon, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5LX
Received 23 Jul 202541 Devonshire Road, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6UD
Received 23 Jul 2025Street Record, Widcombe Bridge, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Jul 20259 Henrietta Gardens, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LZ
Received 23 Jul 2025The Lodge, Southstoke Hall, Packhorse Lane, South Stoke, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7DL
Received 23 Jul 2025The Bailbrook Lodge Hotel, 35 - 37 London Road West, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7HZ
Received 23 Jul 2025The Bailbrook Lodge Hotel, 35 - 37 London Road West, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7HZ
Received 23 Jul 20259 Van Diemen's Lane, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TW
Received 24 Jul 2025Parcel 0006, Old Mills, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 24 Jul 2025The Bailbrook Lodge Hotel, 35 - 37 London Road West, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7HZ
Received 24 Jul 202531 Chantry Mead Road, Moorlands, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2DE
Received 24 Jul 2025Millstream, Trajectus Way, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 24 Jul 2025Larkhall Deli , 1A Upper Lambridge Street, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6RY
Received 24 Jul 20251 Parsonage Lane, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1ER
Received 24 Jul 20251 Parsonage Lane, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1ER
Received 24 Jul 2025Basement Flat, 25 Grosvenor Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6BA
Received 24 Jul 2025Homelands , 9 Camerton Hill, Camerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0PS
Received 24 Jul 20253 Northumberland Buildings , Wood Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2JB
Received 24 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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