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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71,502 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Mount Pleasant Quarry, Mount Pleasant, Monkton Combe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 3 Sept 202542 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DN
Received 3 Sept 202542 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DN
Received 3 Sept 2025Garden Flat, 18 Chilton Road, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6DR
Received 4 Sept 2025Beechlands , Entry Hill Drive, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5NJ
Received 4 Sept 2025Jubilee Centre , Lower Bristol Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 9ES
Received 4 Sept 20255 Little Stanhope Street, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BH
Received 4 Sept 2025561 Bath Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 4 Sept 202581 Broadmoor Lane, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4LD
Received 4 Sept 202511 Bathwick Street, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 6NX
Received 4 Sept 2025Sleight Farm, Hayeswood Road, Timsbury, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0HN
Received 27 Aug 2025King Edwards Pre-prep School, Weston Lane, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AQ
Received 22 Aug 2025King Edwards School Playing Field, Dark Lane, Bathampton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 22 Aug 2025Outbuildings, Lower Twinhoe Farm, Lower Twinhoe, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 4 Sept 202522 Tyning Road, Saltford, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 3HL
Received 4 Sept 2025The Paddocks , Timsbury Road, Farmborough, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 0DA
Received 4 Sept 2025Widcombe House , Church Street, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BA
Received 4 Sept 2025Widcombe House , Church Street, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BA
Received 4 Sept 202515 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DE
Received 5 Sept 202515 Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1DE
Received 5 Sept 2025Whiteladies , Stoke Hill, Chew Stoke, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS40 8XG
Received 5 Sept 2025218 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AX
Received 5 Sept 202514 Devonshire Buildings, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4SP
Received 5 Sept 2025Land At Rear Of 12-14, Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 5 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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