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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Flat 1 Ground Floor, 14 New King Street, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BL
Received 5 Jun 2025Street Record, Cyclepath Batheaston Footbridge To Mill Lane, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 5 Jun 2025290 High Street, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RA
Received 5 Jun 202525 Odins Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2TW
Received 5 Jun 202527 Forester Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QE
Received 5 Jun 2025Smallcombe House , Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6EJ
Received 5 Jun 20251 Sedgemoor Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5PJ
Received 5 Jun 202534 Park Way, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2HE
Received 5 Jun 2025Beazer House, Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Jun 20254 Clutton Hill Cottages , Clutton Hill, Clutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5QF
Received 6 Jun 202526 Northampton Street, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2SW
Received 6 Jun 2025Garden Maisonette, 12 Brock Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LW
Received 6 Jun 202510 Chandos Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2DB
Received 6 Jun 20255 Walcot Parade, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5NF
Received 6 Jun 20255 Walcot Parade, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5NF
Received 6 Jun 2025Systopia Consulting Limited Proximity House, Pixash Business Centre, Pixash Lane, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1TP
Received 6 Jun 2025Upper Maisonette, 26 Belvedere, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HR
Received 6 Jun 2025Upper Maisonette, 26 Belvedere, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5HR
Received 6 Jun 202532 Warminster Road, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6SA
Received 6 Jun 2025Former Gasworks, Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Jun 2025Former Scrap Yard, Bath Old Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 6 Jun 202511 Lambridge Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6RU
Received 6 Jun 2025Tasman House , 32 Van Diemen's Lane, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5TW
Received 6 Jun 2025Flat 2, Westfield House, 172 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AT
Received 6 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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