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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Knoll Farm , White Ox Mead Lane, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8PL
Received 23 Sept 202558 Coronation Avenue, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2PS
Received 23 Sept 2025Parcel 6600, Fairy Hill, Compton Dando, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Sept 2025Jolly's, 7 - 14 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DD
Received 23 Sept 2025St Marys Church , Queen Square, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3EL
Received 23 Sept 2025Celebration Meadow, Gullock Tyning, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Sept 2025First Floor, 42 Rivers Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2QA
Received 23 Sept 202530 Trafalgar Road, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4EW
Received 24 Sept 2025Gaia , Widcombe Hill, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AE
Received 24 Sept 2025Wansdyke Business Centre, Oldfield Lane, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 24 Sept 2025STREET RECORD, Footpath Pulteney Road To Kennet And Avon Canal, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 24 Sept 2025Windsor Bridge , Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DT
Received 24 Sept 2025Combe House , Cleevedale Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5QS
Received 24 Sept 2025175 Englishcombe Lane, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EL
Received 24 Sept 202527 Lorne Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3BY
Received 24 Sept 20255 St Catherine's Close, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BS
Received 24 Sept 20259 Woodland Grove, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7AT
Received 24 Sept 2025Unit 11F, Broadmead Lane Industrial Estate, Broadmead Lane, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1ST
Received 25 Sept 2025Laundry Cottage , The Lower Lane, Combe Hay, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7EG
Received 25 Sept 202523 Junction Road, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3NH
Received 25 Sept 202579 Combe Park, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3NE
Received 25 Sept 2025Blossom Manor, Tunley Road, Tunley, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0DZ
Received 23 Sept 2025Royal Oak Cottages, Old Mills, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7SS
Received 25 Sept 20254 Orchard End, East Harptree, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 6AT
Received 25 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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