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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Lyndhurst Place, Thomas Street, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5NP
Received 25 Sept 2025Abbey Church Of St Peter & St Paul , Abbey Church Yard, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1NZ
Received 25 Sept 2025Top Chef, 4 Nelson Place East, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5DA
Received 25 Sept 2025Top Chef, 4 Nelson Place East, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5DA
Received 25 Sept 202510 Elm Grove, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AZ
Received 26 Sept 2025Royal Crescent Hotel , 16 Royal Crescent, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2LS
Received 26 Sept 202532 High Street, Midsomer Norton, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2DW
Received 26 Sept 2025Eastern Sports Field, Sports Training Village, University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 26 Sept 2025Weston Island Bus Depot , Lower Bristol Road, Westmoreland, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9ES
Received 26 Sept 2025The Bath Brew House, 14 James Street West, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BX
Received 26 Sept 202523 Maple Gardens, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3AG
Received 26 Sept 2025133B Coronation Avenue, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2JX
Received 26 Sept 2025First Floor Offices, 32 Gay Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2NT
Received 26 Sept 20253 Hamilton House, North Parade Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1NS
Received 26 Sept 202541 Severus Street, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 2GD
Received 26 Sept 2025Parcel 7750, Golf Course Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 24 Sept 2025Newlands, Sion Hill, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UW
Received 22 Sept 2025Land West Of Providence Bungalow, Frome Road, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 29 Sept 202562 Rosewarn Close, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1PB
Received 29 Sept 20256 Dover Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6DX
Received 29 Sept 20256 Dover Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6DX
Received 29 Sept 202525 Marshfield Way, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6HD
Received 29 Sept 202561 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AW
Received 29 Sept 2025Garden Flat, 8 Spencer's Belle Vue, Lansdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5ER
Received 29 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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