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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
71 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PH
Received 18 Jun 202571 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PH
Received 18 Jun 202526 Shakespeare Avenue, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4RF
Received 29 Aug 202517 Kingsmead Square, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2AE
Received 29 Aug 2025Kilkenny House , 25 Sion Hill, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UN
Received 29 Aug 202515 Argyle Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BQ
Received 29 Aug 2025Chivers House, Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DT
Received 29 Aug 20257 Cambridge Terrace, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BE
Received 29 Aug 2025Vale View , Belmont Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JR
Received 29 Aug 2025Vale View , Belmont Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JR
Received 29 Aug 2025Flat 2, 12 Lansdown Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5EX
Received 29 Aug 2025Flat 2, 12 Lansdown Crescent, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5EX
Received 29 Aug 2025Charlcombe House , Granville Road, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9BE
Received 1 Sept 2025Horsecombe Vale Farm , Beechwood Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JT
Received 1 Sept 202539 Garrick Road, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1QX
Received 1 Sept 20252 Holland Road, Larkhall, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6QG
Received 1 Sept 202520 Englishcombe Lane, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2ED
Received 1 Sept 2025173 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AU
Received 1 Sept 2025Daphne House , Lucklands Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AY
Received 1 Sept 2025The Old Mill House , The Street, Ubley, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6PD
Received 1 Sept 202574 Vernham Grove, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2TB
Received 1 Sept 202511 Crandale Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3HX
Received 1 Sept 2025Tunley Farm Estate , Tunley Hill, Camerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0DL
Received 1 Sept 2025Electricity Substation, Footpath Darlington Place To Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 1 Sept 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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