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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bath N H S House , Royal United Hospital, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3QE
Received 10 Jun 2025The Locksbrook Inn , 103 Locksbrook Road, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3EN
Received 10 Jun 202513 Brookside Close, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7NN
Received 10 Jun 2025Peasedown Charcoal Grill And Pizza , 11 Bath Road, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8HG
Received 10 Jun 2025Whsmith, 6 - 7 Union Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1RT
Received 10 Jun 2025Clairefontaine, 3 Hamilton Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5SB
Received 9 Jun 2025Cumberland House , Norfolk Crescent, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BG
Received 10 Jun 2025Flat 2, 10 Johnstone Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DH
Received 10 Jun 202523 Limekilns Close, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1HR
Received 11 Jun 2025Harlam Lodge , St Stephen's Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5PN
Received 11 Jun 2025Kennet Lodge , Kennet Park, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6SS
Received 11 Jun 2025Claremont Methodist Church , Eastbourne Avenue, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6EN
Received 11 Jun 2025Catherston , Chapel Lane, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8XD
Received 11 Jun 202518 Lockingwell Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2HG
Received 10 Jun 202569 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DL
Received 11 Jun 2025Flat 13, The Tramshed, Beehive Yard, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5BB
Received 11 Jun 2025Former Radstock County Infant School, Bath Old Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 11 Jun 2025Haygarth Court , Lansdown Grove, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5EL
Received 11 Jun 20251 - 2 Orange Grove, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1LP
Received 11 Jun 202517 St Ann's Way, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BT
Received 11 Jun 202587 Minster Way, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6RL
Received 11 Jun 2025Sulis Hospital Bath , Foxcote Avenue, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8SQ
Received 11 Jun 2025Flat 1, 21 The Paragon, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5LY
Received 11 Jun 202511 Hazel Grove, Moorlands, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2JE
Received 11 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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