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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Jolly's, 7 - 14 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DD
Received 1 Sept 202526 Queen Square, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2HX
Received 1 Sept 20251A Piccadilly Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6PL
Received 1 Sept 202525 Odins Road, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2TW
Received 1 Sept 202579 Grange Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3AQ
Received 1 Sept 2025Flat 1, Isabella House, The Avenue, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5EH
Received 1 Sept 2025124 Ivy Avenue, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1AN
Received 1 Sept 2025Powswood , Chaucer Road, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QY
Received 1 Sept 2025115 Lower Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3HR
Received 2 Sept 202535 Englishcombe Lane, Southdown, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2EE
Received 2 Sept 2025The Briary , Bristol Road, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8UB
Received 2 Sept 2025University Of Bath , University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7AY
Received 2 Sept 202514 Rockliffe Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QN
Received 2 Sept 202520 Ashgrove, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8EB
Received 2 Sept 2025Stanton Court , Bromley Road, Stanton Drew, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4ER
Received 2 Sept 2025Downside, The Normans, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6TD
Received 1 Sept 2025Radstock Methodist Church , The Street, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3PL
Received 2 Sept 2025242 Bath Road, Keynsham, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1TG
Received 2 Sept 202517 Cleveland Walk, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6JW
Received 2 Sept 202524 Montague Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3LA
Received 2 Sept 2025Techniglaze Ltd, 48 First Avenue, Westfield, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 2 Sept 20258 St John's Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PX
Received 2 Sept 2025Little Wyld, Court Lane, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7RY
Received 2 Sept 2025Chivers House, Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3DT
Received 2 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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