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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Combe Hay Cemetery, Old Bath Road, Combe Hay, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 29 Sept 2025Flat 2, 9 Henrietta Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LL
Received 29 Sept 2025Parcel 2280, Box Road, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 29 Sept 2025Basement, 5 Widcombe Crescent, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AH
Received 29 Sept 2025Sainsbury's, Green Park Station, Green Park Road, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2DR
Received 29 Sept 2025Sainsbury's, Green Park Station, Green Park Road, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2DR
Received 29 Sept 20252 Stanley Villas , Camden Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5JE
Received 29 Sept 2025Little Dale , Mill Lane, Monkton Combe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7HD
Received 29 Sept 2025The Smallholdings, Claude Avenue, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 26 Sept 2025Lansdown Golf Club , Lansdown Road, Charlcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9BT
Received 29 Sept 2025Abbey Church Of St Peter & St Paul , Abbey Church Yard, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1NZ
Received 29 Sept 2025St Barnabas Yard, Radstock Road, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3AD
Received 29 Sept 20258 Sydney Buildings, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BZ
Received 29 Sept 2025Woodend , Summerfield Road, Beacon Hill, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5QB
Received 30 Sept 2025River Bank, Mill Lane, Woollard, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 30 Sept 20252 Fairfield Terrace, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8HL
Received 30 Sept 2025Land At Rear Of 48, Wells Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 30 Sept 2025Ham Farm , Ham Lane, Paulton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 7PL
Received 30 Sept 2025St Mary Magdalen , Church Hill, Writhlington, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 5TZ
Received 30 Sept 202521 Castle Gardens, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AN
Received 30 Sept 20253 Barton Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2JR
Received 30 Sept 2025Bath Recreation Ground , Pulteney Mews, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4DS
Received 30 Sept 2025Foxcote , The Square, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QE
Received 30 Sept 2025The Orchard , Forefield Rise, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PL
Received 30 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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